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MRS. AMORKNA GRANT, 

No. 62 West Cedar Street, 
BOSTON, MASS. 



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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



History that did not possess value to some one, and especial 
interest to those having a part in making the same commen- 
surate with its scope, was never written, and a story of a 
genealogical character cannot be otherwise than important to 
its subjects and worthy of the earnest encouragement and sup- 
port of an ancestry that is justified in a commendable pride in 
the deeds of its fathers and a name that has been made illustri- 
ous by some of its sons and daughters, while all of the race 
must iiave a common interest in a history that relates to them- 
selves and the men and women from whom they sprung. 

It is most rare for individuals to be found who are indifferent 
to their origin, yet it is equally rare that any incidents in the life 
of ordinary individuals not of unusual prominence in war, states- 
manship, ecclesiastics or the sciences, is preserved and handed 
down to future generations. 
. .* 'WeAoriliiiiai^ik' make* -iK)* efforts to trace the current of our 
:bli!)dd*4Jiid'C wiouJT graullp^rdnts' day until the actors of earlier 
davs who could supply so much that their posterity w^ould great- 
.4y..t'ahie.; Jia^jq:;pa?se<^ a\\;ay forever. 

Tlie'se 'few' p'ages'are cTisfributed among the numerous de- 
scendants of Joseph Roberts, formerly of New Hampshire, 
who died in lUickfield, Maine, about the beginning of the nine- 
teenth century. Calling attention to the work of one of their 
number, who has devoted much time, labor and expense through 
correspondence and the examination of records, to the task of 
uniting the thousands whose first ancestor was Joseph Roberts, 
by the connecting links of a family record. 

The descendants of Joseph Roberts are scattered from the 
Atlantic to the Pacific, and the present generation has a knowl- 
edge of comparatively small limit of the great number of those 
connected to them by the strong ties of blood. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 3 

The family is to be congratulated that a member, and that one 
a woman, has had the pride, ambition and enterprise to take 
upon herself the labor of gathering the names of all those, 
living and dead, of the stock which had Joseph Roberts for its 
progenitor, and it is to be regretted that some one early in the 
century had not commenced a work that could easily have 
given authentic details of vital historical interest that would 
probably have brought all of the New England Roberts' name 
under the branches of one genealogical tree. 

The last twenty years has witnessed the passing away of 
several venerable members of this particular branch of the fam- 
ily w^hose interesting story of the honorable deeds of their ances- 
tors in early days, witl> their trials, discouragements, privations 
and active part in creating our national history, would now be 
so intensely appreciated by their ancestry. 

It is also to be regretted that a more extended history of the 
family, reverting to the ancient days before the first of the name 
landed on these shores, cannot be presented in this work, but 
no one has yet been found to undertake the gigantic task. Mrs. 
Amorena Grant, to whose patient labors this partial story 
is due, having had the greatest difficulties to encounter, and 

met the most discouraging indifference among so many mem- 
bers of the tribe in her efforts, by correspondence, to secure 
essential detailed facts of family history, in the gleaning of whicli 
every one should have a common interest and take pleasure in 
contributing a part. 

This volume is an incomplete record of the descendants of 
Joseph Roberts, who married Hannah Young, and evidently lived 
in Windham, Maine, during the war of the revolution as is al- 
most conclusively proven by the Windham town records, together 
with subsequent circumstances and incidental history. 

They had seven children, of whom Joseph was the oldest, who 
was a soldier of the revolutionary war, having enlisted at Cape 
Elizabeth as appears by the National Muster rolls of that period. 
He married Esther Hamlin of Gorham, removed to Buckfield and 
was the first settler in the town of Brooks, Maine, about the 
year 1799. 



4 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. ' 

The other children, sons and daughters of Joseph and Hannali 
Roberts, were : 

Hannah, who married, in 1780, James Jordan, whose parents 
were James Jordan and Phoebe Philbrick of Standish. 

Sarah, born in Windham, 1764; married Jotham Shaw, who 
was born in Weymouth, Mass. 

Jonathan, who married, January, 1787, Prudence Willard, in 
Windham. 

EHzabeth, born 1769; married Thomas Irish of Windham. 

Mary, born 1773; married Richard Taylor. 

John, born 1777; married Mirian Irish. 

The family all removed to Buckfield, Maine, where the names 
of their children are all recorded and where the mother, Han- 
nah, lived with her daughter, Elizabeth Irish, until 181 5, and 
at the time of her death her sons Joseph, Jonathan and John 
were in Brooks, her daughter Hannah in Monroe and the other 
daughters were in Buckfield. 

All of the above named children had large families. 

Joseph Roberts had two wives and twenty-four children, 
twelve by each marriage. 

Hannah Jordan had twelve children. 
Sarah Shaw ten children. 
Jonathan Roberts seven children. 
Elizabeth Irish seven children. 
Mary Taylor eight children. 

John Roberts had six children born in the State of Alaine and 
removed to Ohio, where other children were born to him, only 
one child remained in Maine, Sylvanus Roberts, who died 
in Stockton, Maine, April 25, 1872. having had two wives and 
four children by each. 

That some particular Ijranches of the various limbs to the main 
family tree have received more elaborate notic' than others is due 
entirely to the interest taken by individual inen-iners. who have 
supplied the information, and surely through no design of the 
author, who has gladly welcomed everything of historical interest 
relating to any one connected, by ties of blood or marriage, with 
the descendants of Joseph Roberts, Jr., while at the same time 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 5 

inviting- those of the other branches to take their share of space in 
the book. The extended notes of the Jonathan Rol^erts branch 
have been snpphed In- Prof. Thomas A. Roberts, his grandson. 

The ,»^ork has been a labor of love and family pride by Mrs. 
Grant, wno has well and unselfishly performed her part for the 
benefit of future generations. She has given her time and 
labor TO the task without expectation of financial re- 
ward and with little encouragement of receiving enough 
from sales of the book to meet the actual expense of publication 

Mrs. Grant well says in offering an apology for the regretted 

incompleteness of the work : 'T felt that I must save some of 

its history from oblivion and what I offer in these pages will 

help some future historian." 

THE PUBLISHERS. 



THE ROBERTS NAME. 

The tradition that the Roberts families living in the state of 
Alaine have their origin in New Hampshire, though originally 
from Wales, naturally leads us back to Dover, N. H., which was 
first settled by an Englishman named Hilton, in 1623. Others 
followed from the west of England, and the first meeting-house 
was built in 1633, on land occupied two hundred years later by 
one jVaron Roberts. 

The first Roberts mentioned in Dover, N. H., town records 
was Thomas Roberts, whose signature to a document is recorded 
in 1640. This Thomas Roberts (emigrant) was married in Eng- 
land to Rebecca . He came to America in 1633 and settled 

in Dover, N. H., and was colonial governor for a short time. He 
had two sons, one of whom was the sheriff, who whipped the 
Quakers at the cart-taii out of town. After that, the father 
arose in church and publicly asked the pardon of God for having 
such sons, and immediately adopted the Quaker faith. 

Whittier, the poet, is said to have descended from this same 
sheriit. 

Thomas Roberts conveyed land to his sons John and Thomas 
in 1670, and the Roberts name is mentioned all the way down to 
the present time in Dover, N. H., and surrounding towns and 
states throughout the Union. 

This ancestor may not be the one we are looking for, as there 
are said to be two distinct families of Roberts, not related — one 
coming from England, claiming to be English, the other from 
Wales. Probably they all originated from the same source- 
Roberts being distinctly a Welsh name. 

Not being able to trace connection with the one coming over 
from Wales (and they are coming from Wales all the time), I 
have chosen to confine my present history to Joseph Roberts, the 
first settler of the town of Brooks, Me., and his immediate fam- 
ily, supplemented by one nearly as full of the descendants of his 
brother, Jonathan Roberts, and a brief notice of the family of 

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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 7 

his sisters, Hannah Jorden, Sarah Shaw, Ehzabeth Irish, Mary 
Taylor, and brother, John Roberts. 

On the Windham, Me., records is the copy of a deed which 
says : "Peter White purchased of Joseph Roberts and wife, Han- 
nah, one hundred acres of land, at Standish, Me., August 29, 
1787." 

This Joseph Roberts and wife, Hannah, were undoubtedly the 
parents of our paternal ancestor Joseph. The family are known 
to have lived on this farm on Standish Neck, Me. It is now owned 
by Edwin White, a grandson of Peter White, who bought it. 
and who moved from Buckfield (Me.) there. It is occupied 
by A. M. Shaw, who has summer boarders, and is a delightful 
situation at the foot of Sebago Lake, Me., about six miles from 
Standish village, Me. From the house to Windham, Me., is but a 
few rods, and as the farm seems to have extended into Windham, 
Me., they used "Windham" as a home name. 

Joseph Roberts, Senior, our ancestor, was living in Brent- 
wood, N. H., in 1756^ and is next known by the records extant 
in Windham, Me. He had a brother Jonathan, also living in 
Windham, Me., having been married there to Elizabeth Webb, 
in 1768. Their son Samuel was born in Windham, Ale. 

When they moved to Buckfield, Me., there were born to them: 
Susanna, George, Jonathan, James, Bethia, Judith, Betsey, Seth 
and Rebecca. 

James, of this family, married Tabitha Roberts, the daughter 
of his cousin Joseph, and went to Brooks, Me., with them. Oth- 
ers of the family followed and settled in Brooks and Waldo, Me.. 
and surrounding towns, where their descendants are to this day. 

A Windham, Me., record says: "Jonathan Roberts, Jr., of 
Buckfield, bought land in Buckfield, Me., of Peter White, of 
Standish, Me., 1795." Another deed speaks of Jonathan Roberts 
(a trader), of Windham, Ale., now residing in Buckfield, Me., 
January 15, 1801. 

Joseph Junior's brothers and sisters were: Hannah, Sarah, 
Jonathan, Elizabeth, Mary and John. 

When their father died is not known. The family tradition 
says he came from Wales to New Hampshire. 

The mother, who was Hannah Young, died in 1816, while re- 
siding with her daughter Elizabeth. 



JOSEPH ROBERTS, JR. 

A Revolvitlonary Soldier. ' 



JOSEPH ROBERTS was born in Brentwood, N. H. (a town 
near the Massachusetts Hne), on February 6, 1756. He died in 
Brooks, Me., January 10, 1843. Nothing is known of him from 
his birth till his enlistment in the militia at Cape Elizabeth, May 
15. 1775- Being under age, he ran away from home to enlist. 
His father went to bring him home, but, as Joseph told it, he, too, 
caught the war fever, and enlisted, and they were both at Bunker 
Hill, fighting "behind the rail fence." 

The common soldiers of this renowned battle were not record- 
ed, so we cannot prove this illustrious service ; but Joseph's name 
appears recorded at the state house and at Washington, D. C, as 
a Revolutionary soldier from 1775 to the end of 1779. In the 
meantime he found time to marry, for November 28, 1777, he was 
married to Miss Esther Hamlin, of Gorham, Me., a daughter of 
Joseph Hamlin, who was a soldier in the French war, and died 
soon after returning home, June 17, 1763. 

Miss Hamlin's lineage has been traced back to Hamelin, who 
came over with William the Conqueror in 1066, and supposed to 
be of German ancestry. She is of the fifth generation in America. 
James came in 1639 and settled in Barnstable, Mass. His son 
Israel also lived there, while Jacob became one of the early set- 
tlers of Gorham, Me., about 1743. 

(H. F. Andrews, in his "History of the Hamlin Family," gives 
a very vivid account of the stirring times the settlers had at this 
period with the Indians and French ; also sickness and hardships 
almost incredible to believe now.) 

Jacob was born in 1702. He married his cousin Content Ham- 
lin, in 1 73 1. He died in 1774. She lived almost to the year 1800. 
Joseph, the one child left to them, was born May, 173 — , possibly 
in Barnstable, Mass. He married, April 15, 1755, Hannah Whit- 
ney, whose family came from York, Me. She died in 1797. 
Their children were : Jacob, Esther, Joseph, Sarah. 



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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 9 

Esther Hamlin Roberts was born in Gorham, Me., June 30, 
1758. She was married on November 28, 1777. She died in 1800 
in Buckfield, Me. 

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES OF JOSEPH ROBERTS. 

1. Appears with rank of private on muster roll of Captain 
Samuel Dunn's company, Colonel Edmund Phinney's Thirty- 
first Regiment of Foot, dated July 11, 1775. He enlisted May 15, 
1775, from Cape Elizabeth, Me., for one month and twenty- 
seven days. 

2. Appears on return of Captain Dunn's company (October 
returns), 1775. 

3. Appears in an order for bounty coat, or its equivalent in 
money, dated Cambridge, November, 1775. For service in Cap- 
tain Dunn's company. 

4. Appears on muster roll of Captain Jonathan Sawyer's com- 
pany, Colonel Phinney's regiment, dated at Garrison Fort George, 
December 8, 1776. He enlisted January i, 1776. 

5. Service at Dorchester Heights, August 31, 1776. Resi- 
dence, Windham, Me. 

6. Travel from home, Windham to Bennington, January 6, 
1777. 

7. Travel from Fort Edward to Windham, January 15, 1777. 

8. Appears on muster and pay roll of Captain Robert Per- 
kins' company of Light Horse, raised by resolve of September 
22, 1777, for guarding Burgoyne's troops to Prospect Hill. He 
■enlisted September 27, discharged November 7, 1777. 

9. Appears on muster and pay roll of Captain Samuel Water- 
house's company. Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment of guards at 
Winter Hill. He enlisted April 3, 1778. 

10. Appears on muster and pay roll Captain John Dodge's 
company. Colonel Jacob Gerrish's regiment of guards. He en- 
listed July 19, 1778; discharged December 16, 1778. 

11. Appears on muster and pay roll of Captain Nathan Mer- 
rill's company, Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment. He was 
detached for Penobscot Expedition, and allowed pay for mileage. 
He enlisted July 8, 1779; discharged September 25, 1779. 

12. Appears among a list of men moved from Cape Elizabeth 
since 1776, dated Cape Elizabeth, January 17, 1782. 



10 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

A pension was s^rranted of $8 a month, from April 9, 1818. 
This was dropped under Act of May i. 1820, but restored by Act 
of June 7, 1832, at $76.66 per year. It was allowed April 10, 1834. 
The second pension commenced from March 4, 1831. 

Joseph Roberts is supposed to have settled in Standish, Me., 
the town adjoining Windham, Me., about the close of his Revolu- 
tionary services. All his children's names appear on the Buck- 
field, Me., records. The "Maine State Register" records that he 
was the first white settler in the town of Brooks, Me., in 1799. 
He probably was there several years before his family moved, 
as his wife died, in 1800, in Buckfield. In 1801 he married Mar- 
sraret Hall, dauditer of Hatevil Hall and Ruth Winslow. She 
was from the old English family of Wincelowe, from whom came 
Governor Winslow in the Mayflower, in 1620. His brother, 
Ivenelm, horn in 1599, came to Plymouth, Mass., m 1629. He 
married in 1634 the widow of John Adams, and settled in Marsh- 
field. Mass. 

To them was born Job. His son James, born 1687, settled in 
Falmouth, Me., 1728. He was the first Quaker in that town. He 
had a son Job, born 171 5, and his daughter Ruth married Hatevil 
Hall, who was a descendant of Deacon John Hall, born in Eng- 
land, in 1617, and settled in Dover, N. H., about 1650. His 
grandson, Hatevil, went to Falmouth, Me., in 1750, and there his 
son Flatevil, born in Dover, 1736, married Ruth Winslow (fifth 
generation). They moved from Falmouth, Me., to Windham, 
Me., thence to Buckfield, Me., thence to Brooks, Me., where she 
died in 1798. He died in 1804. 

He left thirteen children. The twelfth child, Margaret, of the 
sixth generation in America, was born in 1777, in Buckfield, Me. 
She married Joseph Roberts, and they had twelve children. 

Shadrach Hall, the thirteenth child, and brother of Margaret, 
was born in T779, and married Sarah, the daughter of Joseph 
Roberts by his first wife. She was born in 1782. They had ten 
children. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. ii 

JOSEPH AND ESTHER HAMLIN. 

They had twelve children as follows : 

1. Hannah, bom February 20, 1778; married John Young, 
1799; died 1844; h3-d ten children. 

2. Tabitha, born January 11. 1780; married a distant relative, 
James Roberts,- 1799; died November 20, 1868; had four chil- 
dren. 

3. Sarah, born May 6, 1782; married Shadrach Hall; died 
November, 1859; had ten children. 

4^ Isaac, born May 10, 1784; married, first, Abigail Merrill, 
1810; married, second, Sarah Cobb, 1836; died, 1862; had nine 
children. 

5. Jacob, born May 10, 1784; married, first, Huldah Myrick, 
1810; married, second, Abby Jenkins, 1852; died March 15. 1856; 
had eleven children. 

6. Elizabeth, born February 2, 1786; married John Cates^ 
1804; died June, 1832; had nine children. 

(j. Gilman, born October 28, 1788; married, first, Ann Leath- 
ers, 181 1 ; married, second, Susan Batchelder, 1830; died May 4, 
1877 ; had twelve children. 

8. Enoch, born March 2^, 1791 ; married, first, Eleanor Leath- 
ers, ; married, second, Eliza Aborn, ; died July 25, 1858 ; 

had eleven children. 

9. Infant, born, 1793; died, 1793. 

10. Esther, born March 20, 1795 ; married Daniel Hamilton, 
1813; died, 1877; had thirteen children. 

11. Lovina, born August, 1797; married Levi Bowen, 1818;, 
died October, 1856; had twelve children. 

12. Joseph, born November 2, 1799; married Lydia Knight, 
1823; died October 26, 1885; had three children. 



One hundred and four grandchildren of Joseph and Esther 
Hamlin Roberts. 



12 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

JOSEPH AND MARGARET HALL. 

They had twelve children, as follows : 
I. Nathan, born February 5, 1802; died young. 
(^ Benjamin, born February, 1804; married Nancy Cilley, 
1843; died November 23, 1864; had 5 children. 

:3. John, born January, 1806; married Harriet Jackson, 1834; 
■died May. 1886; had eight children. 

4. Alfred, born October 21, 1807; married, first, Caroline 
Davis, 1831 ; married, second, Sarah Roberts, i860; died October 
15, 1868; had fourteen children. 

5. Ruth, born, 1809; died young. 

6. Mary, bom, 181 1 ; died young. 

7.; Timothy, born July 31, 1812; married Nancy Gardner, 
1835; died March 19, 1868; had four children. 

8. Charles, born January, 1814; married Clarinda Havener, 
— ; died January 6, 1840. 

9. Nathan, born June 9, 1815; married, first, Elvira Irish; 
married, second, Mary Langham ; died September 9, 1892; had 
five children. 

10. Mary, born, 1818; married Calvin Fogg; died December, 
i^^; had four children. 

(iii Winslow, born March 8, 1821 ; married, first, Amelia Put- 
nam ; married, second, Cornelia Rand ; married, third, Maria 
Bangs; died June 17, 1879; ^^^^1 seven children. 

12. Rufus, born April 14, 1823; married Adeline Files, 1844; 
died May, 1900; had six children. 



Fifty-three grandchildren of Joseph and Margaret Hall 
Roberts. 



One hundred and fifty-seven grandchildren of Joseph Roberts. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 13 

THE FIRST SETTLER OF BROOKS, MAINE. 

Going into the wilderness of Brooks, Me., in 1799, Joseph 
Roberts first selected a spot about a mile north of the present vil- 
lage, and cleared the land for his first home. A family, Thorn- 
dike by name, from Beverly, Mass., owning a large grant of 
land, and wishing to secure the improvements made by Joseph, 
exchanged with him for a large tract of land about a mile west of 
the first farm, now called the "Thorndike Farm." Here Joseph 
and his boys cleared up another farm, built a log house, and here 
he lived a long life and died respected and lamented by all. He 
built the first saw mill, which developed the village around it and 
a few years later the grist mill, on the site where the "Page Mills" 
recently stood. He was a natural mechanic, and was a manufac- 
turer of wooden ware, selecting woods with greatest care, and 
with a foot-lathe turning out bowls, mortars, etc. Some of his 
dishes are in existence now among his descendants. He taught his 
boys the wood-turners' trade, and the girls were taught spinning 
and weaving. The goods they manufactured were a source of 
revenue. While some were making articles, others would go out 
through the sparcely settled country and trade them for necessi- 
ties of life. 

The old soldier was an upright, moral and religious man, in- 
dustrious and frugal. His descendants have inherited these traits 
in a great measure, as well as his consistent patriotism in time 
of war. 



14 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

CHILDREX OF JOSEPH AND ESTHER. 
HANNAH ROBERTS YOUNG'S FAMILY. 

HAW AH ROBERTS, first child of Joseph and Esther, was 
born in Buckfield, ]\Ie., February 20, 1778. She married, in 1799, 
John Young-, who was born in Buckfield, Me., 1778. They had ten 
children. He died in South Jackson, Me., October 29, 1836. She 
died in Swanville, Me., October 26, 1844. Their children were: 

I. AXXA YOUXG, born September 12, 1800; married Hugh 
Carley February 5, 1822. She died December 11, 1837. Their 
children were: Alvin Carley, born September 2^, 1823; 
was killed in Africa by natives, April 26, 1842. Mark 
Carley, born March 11, 1826; married Kate Oilman. They live 
in Tolono, 111. Lovina Y. Carley, born in Jackson, Me., May 23, 
1828 ; married to William S. Hildreth in New Salem, Ind., Janu- 
ary 2, 1848, who was born in Paris, Ky., December 16, 1826, and 
died in Decatur. 111., Januar}- 15, 1894. She died in Jacksonville, 
111., June 30, 1892. Their children were: Hortense A. Hildreth, 
born in Liberty, Mo., October 18, 1849. Winfield Scott Hildreth, 
born in Liberty, Mo., October 29, 1859; died December 13, 1896; 
unmarried. Carley Fremont Hildreth, born in Cameron, Mo., 
August 15, 1861. Inez K. Hildreth, born in Tolono, 111., March 
4, 1869. 

Hortense Hildreth was married December 24, 1873, to Halden 
J. Hay in Tolono, 111. He died February 20, 1895, in St. Louis, 
111. There were four children, viz. : Mary Lovina Hay, born 
April 6, 1877; married August, 1898, Joseph Jeffries, who w^as 
born in Kania, 111.. September 29. 1876. Ollie L. Hay, born Au- 
gust 5, 1878; died October 17, 1878. Ada A^sta Hay, born Decem- 
ber 9, 1880; died June 26, i88r. Carley Halden Hay, bom July 
2, 1883, in Litchfield, 111., where they now reside. 

Carley F. Hildreth, married May i, 1886, Anna S. Steele, who 
was born February 12, 1868, in Dwight, 111. Their children were : 
James William, born in Marshfield, Mich., July 11, 1888. Lizzie 
Lovina, born in Jacksonville, 111., December 16, 1891. Hazel 
Hortense, iiorn in Jacksonville, 111., January 11, 1894. Mamie 
Hildreth, born in Jacksonville, 111., August 11, 1898. All of 
these reside in Litchfield, 111. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 15 

John Carley, born January 31, 1831 ; died June 10, 183?. 

Martha A. Carley, born February 2, 1836; married March 5, 
1853, Charles A. Harris, of Stockton, Me., who was born in 
Methuen, Mass. Their children were : Ashley C. Harris, born 
May 7, 1857; died January 2, 1875. Annie O. Harris, born 
September 8, i860; married October 7. 1883, George H. Lowell, 
of Bucksport, Me. Their children were : Ralph W. Lowell, born 
September 24, 1886; Carleton W., born February 15, 1890; Ver- 
non H., born July 3, 1897. Lyman C. Harris, born April 7, 1S67 ; 
married December 12, 1889, Lizzie Partridge; died November 2d:. 
1892. Maggie E. Harris, born July 29. 1870; married July 8, 
1895; Leroy Nickerson. Beulah, born September 12, 1896. 
Charles L. Harris, born October 14, 1873; died December 10 
1885. Irwin P. Harris, born July 18, 1879. 

Ashley Carley, born December 5, 1837 ; died December 14, 1855, 
in Havana, Cuba, of yellow fever. 

2. MARTHA YOUNG, second daughter of Hannah, born 
in 1802; married Ebenezer Williams, February 15, 1822; died 
March, 1835. Their children were : 

Hannah Williams, born in Jackson, Me., in 1823; married 
Timothy Thorndike in 1844, who died in 1874. He was an offi- 
cer of the 26th Maine Regiment. She died in Belfast, Me., 
November 26, 1901. Their children were: Clara Thorn- 
dike, born 1845; ^ graduate from Mt. Holyoke Seminary; mar- 
ried Edward Sibley, Belfast. Me., 1869. Their children were: 
Charlotte Thorndike Sibley, liorn in Belfast, Me., January 29, 
1871 ; graduated from Wellesley Seminary ; married Henry Hoyt 
Hilton, of Cambridge, Mass.. October 6, 1897. They had two 
children, namely: Katherine Leighton Hilton, bom July, 1898; 
and Charlotte Wallace Hilton, born April 29, 1901. They reside 
in Chicago. Howard Sibley, born February 19, 1892; entered 
Dartmouth, 1897. 

Edward Thorndike, born 1857 ; married Ida Chase, of Boston, 
They live in Belfast, Me. 

Isabella W^illiams, born in Jackson, Me., March 26, 1826; mar- 
ried October 17, 1844, to Richard Dexter, who died November 
7, 1886. She resides in Worcester, Mass. Their children were: 
Lorinda Ellen Dexter, born in Worcester, Mass., July 3, 1845; 



1 6 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

died June 14, 1863. George Albert Dexter, born in Worcester,. 
Mass., October i. 1847 '- married Etta Hurlburt, 1871 ; John Brad- 
ford Dexter, born in Worcester. August 6, 1849; died April 26, 
1854. Martha Isabella Dexter. ])orn in May 19, 1854; married 
J. F. Armstrong, November 19, 1874. Their children were: 
Alice Isabella Armstrong, born September. 1875 ; married Wil- 
liam Lain])Iiere, November 15. 1897. Mattie Winifred Armstrong, 
born July 10, 1892. Frank Richard Dexter, born July 30, 1871 ;: 
married Lena Hurlljurt, May 16. 1890. 

Jackson Williams, born in Jackson, Me., 1830; married Mary 
J. Harris, November 19, i860. He died in Portland, Me., July 
II, 1893. She resides in Portland, Me. 

3. LOVINA YOUNG, born about 1805; married Mr. 
Stewart, and died a young woman. 

4. ESTHER YOUNG, born 1807 ; married Samuel Mitchell ; 
died June 14, 1834. Their children were: Daniel Young Mitch- 
ell, born in Troy, Me., January 7, 1831 ; married November 
6. 1854, Nancy F. Putnam, born in Searsport, Me., April, 1836;. 
died June I, 1856. September 26, i860, Daniel married Delia Jane 
Nichols, of Searsport, Me. Ashley J. Mitchell, born in Troy, Me.,. 
August 28, 1833 ; married Mary Carlon. They had one son, 
George Ashley Mitchell; born April 25, 1863; married Susan 
G. Stephenson, of Hingham, Mass. 

5. HANNAH YOUNG, born 1809; married Israel Stearns, 
Monroe, Me. They had one son, Jonathan, who died in Old- 
town, Me. 

6. ALMIRA YOUNG, born February i, 181 1 ; married Silas 
Stearns, Jackson, Me. She died March 11, 1851. (These 
Stearns brothers were connections of Israel Putnam of Revolu- 
tionary fame.) 

Almira and Silas had eight children. Esther, born October, 
1834; married Joseph Hamilton. Swanville, ]Me., and had eight 
children. (See Hamilton record.) 

John Y. Stearns, born November 18, 1836; married Lois, daugh- 
ter of Reuben Deering, in Jackson, Me., September 26, 1864. 
There were three children, namely: Minot F., bom December 20, 
1865. Gertrude D., born September 2, 1869, and Vesta A., bom 
August II, 1877, in Belfast, Me. Gertrude married Wilber 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 17 

Macomber, December 20, 1893. Ruth, born August 23, 1896. 
John Y. Stearns enhstecl in Twenty-sixth Maine for one year. 
He died in Jackson, Me., June 17, 1891. 

Vesta Stearns was born in 1838, and died in 1861. David 
Stearns, born January 14, 1841 ; died November 3, 1866. Harriet 
Stearns, born January i, 1842; married Reuben Woodbury, of 
Searsport, Me. They had one son, Edward. Harriet married 
(second time) Amos Gross. They had eight children as follows: 
Alexis, Eugene (who died), Robert, John (who died), Clifton, 
Ralph, Ernest, Benjamin. 

Alexis married Lizzie Kimball. They have one child, Morris, 
who was born May, 1898. 

Baby Stearns was born and died in 1844. Jennie Stearns was 
born November 6, 1846, and married Charles F. Cooper, of Bel- 
fast, Me. Almira Stearns was born in 1848, and married Willard 
Page of Jackson, Me. She died in Belfast, Me., January 16, 1892. 

The children of Jennie Stearns Cooper are as follows : Celeste, 
born June 8, 1874; married Lincoln Hamilton, June 28, 1899 
They live in Swanville. Elizabeth Cooper, born June 14, 1877 
Mary Cooper, born March 25, 1879; died October 12, 1884 
Frederick, born April 12, 1881. Jennie, born December 31, 1883 
died October 22, 1884. Infant, born and died August, 1885 
Stella, Ijorn September i, 1886. 

Almira Stearns Page's children were: Nellie (who died), 
Grace, Minnie, Ralph. Grace was born in 1873 and married Roy 
Young. She died December 6, 1896. They had one child, Mar- 
garet. 

7. JOHN YOUNG, born February 16, 1813; married, June 
29. 1835, Maria M. Gilman. She was born September 2, 1815, 
and died Decemljer 3, 1895. John died December 27. 1838. 

Two children were born to them, namely : John Henry, July 
II, 1836 (died June it,, 1857, on Island of St. Helena), and 
Lusanna Emeline, born January 27, 1839 ! married Charles Henry 
Clary, September 19. 1870. Their children were: Edith Abby 
Clary, born September i, 1871 ; Justin Roberts Clary, born May 
26, 1873. Lusanna Maria Clary, born November 29, 1874. Mary 
Perry Clary, born April 3, 1880, and died May 3, 1880. Henry 
Charles Clarv, born Fp.bruarv 2, 1882. 



i8 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

8. A'ESTA YOUNG, a beautiful girl ; was engaged to Charles 
Oilman, but she died young and unmarried. 

9. JOSEPH YOUNG, married Elizabeth Roberts, daughter 
of Eli Roberts, of Waldo. They had four sons : Eli, Hanson, 
Joseph, John Wesley. (See Tabitha's record.) 

Joseph was a sailor. He went off to sea and never came back. 
It is reported that he died in Kansas. 

10. EMMELINE YOUNG was born about 1819, and mar- 
ried about 1840, her cousin, Joseph Hamilton, of Swanville, 
and died April 8, 1854. She had four children : Isabel, Alvin, 
Emmeline, Amos. All are dead but Amos, who married Delia 
George of Stockton. They had one son, Charles. Emmeline mar- 
ried Joseph Harvey. They had one child, Nellie. Alvin died 
when four years of age, and Isabel died when eight years of age. 

TABITHA ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

TABITHA ROBERTS, second daughter of Joseph and Esther, 
was born in Buckfield, Me., January 11, 1780, and married, March 
20, 1799, her father's cousin, James Roberts, son of Jonathan 
Roberts and Elizabeth Webb. Thev all lived in Buckfield, Me. 
James and his brother Samuel soon followed their cousin Joseph 
into the new country, and settled in Waldo, Me., immediately 
south of Brooks township. The early settlers had hard work to 
do in those days, and Tabitha was a true helpmeet, going into 
the woods to help her husband in his daily work, always ready 
for anything needed to be done. It is said she once killed a Brit- 
ish soldier with a pitchfork as he was in the act of taking away 
her last cow. True daughter of her father ! But four children 
were born to them. Two of these died young. Of the two re- 
maining, Esther died long before her mother, while Eli lived 
to care for his mother in her declining years. She died at the 
home of her son on November 20, 1868, nearly ninety years of age. 
Her husband, James, died in 1864. 

ESTHER ROBERTS was born in 1802, and married George 
Fogg, November 20, 1821. She died in Brooks, Me., 1841. She 
was the mother of six children, as follows : James, Tabitha, 
George, Catherine, Lorenzo and Reuben. They are all dead but 
Tames, who now lives in Methuen, Mass. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



19 



James Fogg was born May 31, 1822. He married Emeline M. 
Dyer, of Phillips, Me., and when she died he married Harriet 
N. Farnsworth, of Lawrence, Mass. To them were born three 
daughters. They were: Emma Fogg, born October 29, 1854; 
married, September 16, 1875, Fred Morton. They live in Phila- 
delphia, Pa. Their children are: Eddie, born May 17, 1878. 
Arthur, born April i, 1880. George, born July 2(i, 1883. Frank, 
born June 13, 1885. 

Georgietta A. Fogg was born February 14, 1859; married, 
December 2y, 1880, Horace Eldridge. They live in Maiden, 
Mass., and have two children, viz. : Clarence Eldridge, born April 
15, 1883. Horace Eldridge, born April 20, 1884. 

Abbie W'. Fogg was born May 31, 1862 ; married, December 25, 
1882, Elmer Bailey. They live in Salem. N. H., and have four 
children : Clara Bailey, born May 20, 1884. Orin A., born Sep- 
tember I, 1886. Mary, born December 30, 1888. Harriet, born 
September 23, 1890. 




ELI ROBERTS. 
Son of 'iabitha Roberts. 




NANCY ROBERTS, 
Wife of Eli Roberts. 



ELI ROBERTS, son of Tabitha, born February 19, 1804, and 
died August 22, 1861. On March 17, 1822, he married Nancy 
Jones, daughter of Samuel Jones, one of the first settlers. She was 
born September 7, 1805, and lived until July 24, 1901. For nearly 



20 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

a century she was a bright and shining Hght in her own numerous 
and admiring family and among her friends and neighbors. She 
retained her faculties to a wonderful degree, and was always 
ready to assist those in need of help and sympathy. They lived 
on the old homestead till the fast growing family demanded 
more room, then they built a new home across the street, where 
their lives were spent, the eldest son taking the place of protector 
when the father was called home. He, too, finished his work be- 
fore his mother was allowed to leave, and the last few years of her 
life were spent with her granddaughters. She had eleven chil- 
dren, only one of whom lived to see her mother die. 

The first child of Eli and Nancy Roberts was Elizabeth, born 
February 2^. 1823, and died January 13, 1890. She married 
Joseph Young, August. 1843. &"<! liad the following four sons: 
Eli, Joseph. Hanson and John Wesley. 

The father went off to sea while the children w^ere vet voung, 
and never returned. Finding it impossible to take care of so many 
little ones, three of them were given away. 

Eli Young was adopted by John Durham and his name changed 
to Talford Durham. Joseph went with a :\lr. Lewis, and Wesley 
to Leonard Levensellar. 

The four boys were all in the Union army. Wesley, who was 
a member of Co. L, First Maine Heavy Artillery, died at George- 
town, D. C, early in 1864. The others have died since. Talford 
was married and had three children, and they are all dead. He 
was a most excellent and prominent citizen of Monroe. Me. 
Joseph never married. Hanson Young married Emma Bowen, 
and tlieir record will l)c found in the Hamilton family, they being 
second cousins. They had four sons. Hanson Young was in 
the First Maine Cavalry, Company G, for a year and a half. He 
died August 31. 1874, in A\'al(l(.. Me. He has one son, Roy 
Young, now living in Ik'lfast. ^\q. 

Elizabeth Roberts Young married Joseph Shaw. They had one 
son, Leslie, who died. 

Esther, the second child of Eli, was born September 25, 
1824; died April 6, 1886. She married Benjamin Jackson, De- 
cember 19, 1843. They had nine children : Henry Jackson, who 
lives in Winthrop, Me. (born September 4, 1844), was in the army. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 21 

He married Georgia Crosby. They had three children, viz. : An in- 
fant son, died. Abbie E., born August 8, 1868; married Howard 
Wiggin, November 29, 1895. They have two boys, Harold 
Alton, born August 7, 1896, and Paul Edmonds, born September 
21, 1897. They live in Roxbury district, Boston, Mass. Percy B. 
Jackson (son of Henry), born July 7, 1870; married Allene 
Martha Marston. They live in Newburyport, Mass. ; have one 
son, Frederick Marston, born June 20, 1897. 

Esther's second son, Daniel, born November, 1845 ; married 
Harriet Knowlton. They have one son, Bert, who lives in Mon- 
tana. 

Esther's third child, Edwin Jackson, lives in Belfast, Me. He 
was bom February 9, 1847. He was in the army. He married 
Florilla Crosby. They had ten children, viz. : Lillian ; married 
George Wilson. They had two children, Nettie and Chester. 
George Wilson died and she married Fred Crosby. No children 
by this marriage. Edwin, who died December, 1895, mar- 
ried Jennet Seekins. They had three children, Willis, Henry and 
Arbor D. Evelyn G. married Theodore French. They had two 
daughters, Inez and Flora. Inez married Ashbury Phinney. 
They had three children, Nellie, Roy and Raymond. Other chil- 
dren of Esther were two infants, who died; Henry and Jennie, 
who died young; Alfred and Sanford, both unmarried. 

Andrews born April 9, 1848, w^as the fourth son of Esther. 
He married Phoebe Radway. Both are now dead. One daugh- 
ter, Mary Radway, is now living in New Jersey. Andrew was in 
the army and died soon after his discharge. 

W^illiam Jackson, the fifth son of Esther, was born April 9, 
1850. He married March 9, 1872, Alida E. Marden, born Novem- 
ber 10, 1856. Their children were: Minnie May Jackson, born 
October 7, 1876; married David Smith, INIarch 11, 1897. William 
R. Jackson, born September 28, 1878. Grace ^laud Jackson, born 
December 11, 1880; married, July 24, 1897, W^illiam Knowlton. 
Lucy Esther, born ]\Iay 31, 1883. Eugene, born Januarv 6. 1887. 
Earl Jackson, born July 15, 1889. Stanley Jackson, born Febru- 
ary 13, 1892. \'iola Jackson, born September zy, 1894. Roy 
Jackson, born January 28, 1899. 

The sixth son of Esther, named Francis, died young; also little 
Abbie, the seventh child. 



22 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

The eighth child of Esther, Benjamin FrankHn Jackson, was 
born in Waldo, Me., April 26, 1855, ^^^^ resides in Laurel, Mont. 
He married Mary L. Conboy, born in Boston, Mass., September 
5, 1855. They had four children, as follows: Julia Esther Jack- 
son, born in Boston, Mass., September 23, 1877; married Wil- 
liam Abshire of Indiana. They had three children, namely, W'il- 
bur Abshire, born December 23, 1897. Hiram Abshire, born April 

28, 1899. William Abshire, born November 18, 1900. John F. 
Jackson, born in Fremont street, Boston, Mass., April 27, 1879. 
He married, December, 1900, Mollie Foley of Nebraska. Sadie 
Marguerite Jackson, born in Boston, Mass., February 24, 1881. 
She married November i, 1899, Clarence M. Sackett, of Park 
City, Mont. Charles Jackson, born in Park City, July 24, 1883. 

John E. Jackson, Esther's youngest child, married Margaret 
Conboy, of Boston, Mass., and lives in Montana. 

Daniel Roberts, son of Eli, born April 2, 1826; died April 25, 
1896, in Waldo, Me. He was in the War of the Rebellion. He 
was a wheelwright, and lived in W^aldo, Me. He married Dru- 
silla Durham, May 29, 1852. Drusilla died November 10. 1874, 
and Daniel married Laura, who died May i, 1898. The children 
of Daniel and Drusilla are: Abbie Y., born February 26, 1853; 
unmarried ; lives on home place, Waldo, Me. Mary L., born April 

29, 1856; unmarried; lives in Brooks, Me. Ella N., born Janu- 
ary 16, 1858; married John Gordon, of Brooks, Me. Otis E., 
born July 23, i860; lives in Gebo, Mont. Sylvira, born November 
26, 1869; inarricd Arthur Crowell, who died April, 1897. Dru- 
silla, born August 24, 1874; lives at home in Waldo, Me. 

Otis was tJK' only son of Daniel Roberts. He married Susan 
A. Pruiette, who was born in Gainesville, Texas, February 15, 
1875. They are now living in Gebo, Mont. He is a millwright 
and farmer. Their children are : Hattie Mabel, born in Billings, 
Mont., November 18, 1892. Helen Adelaide, born in Red Lodge, 
Mont., October 13, 1894. Hulda Ann. born in Gebo, ^lont., June 
22, 1898. Otis Elmer, Jr., l)orn in Gebo, Mont., June 17, 1901, 
and died August 30, 1901. 

Nancy, the fourth child of Eli, was born February 2, 1828, and 
died December 22, 1852; unmarried. 

Sylvira, the fifth child, was born December 28, 1829, and mar- 
ried Benjamin McKenney. He is a machinist, and is at present 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 23 

living in Salem, Mass. He was in the Twenty-third Massachu- 
setts Regiment. They have one daughter, Cora B., born in 
Salem, Mass., November 14, 1858. She was married to Albert 
Henry Taylor, June 11, 1879. They are now residing in Spring- 
field, Mass. She is a musician and composer. He has a music 
store. Two sons were born to them, namely, Albert Henry, Jr., 
born in Salem, Mass., April 27, 1880. Louis Chester, born in 
Bridgeport, Conn., July 3, 1886. Both children are orchestral 
players. 

Tabitha, the sixth child of Eli and Nancy, was born August 21, 
1 83 1. She died January i, 1859. She married, in 1849, Daniel 
L. Meady. He died October 21, 1876. They had five children: 
Louisa, born February 24, 1850; died May 24, 1877. Charles 
Meady, born February 7, 1852; married Lizzie Frost, May 13, 
1895. They live in Salem, Mass., and keep a restaurant. Ella 
Meady, born December 2^, 1854, married Theodore Clement 
Storey, June 2, 1875, in Lynn, Mass. He is an engineer. They 
had one child, Nettie Florence, born March 25, 1876, and died 
June 20, 1880. Abbie Meady, born April 21, 1857; died Febru- 
ary 6, 1859. Etta Meady, born July 8, 1858; died October 12, 
1878. She married Charles Trull July 3, 1877. Herbert Morton 
Trull was born to them March 2"] . 1878, and died October, 1878. 

Welthia (twin to Tabitha) was born August 21, 1831, and died 
March i, 1859. 

Huldah Jane, born July 19, 1833 ; married Warren Tewkesbury. 
She died January 14, 1856. 

Elithea Ann, born March 8, 1835 ; died January 9, 1856. 

Abbie, born December 30, 1844; died August 17, 1852. 

James E., born February 12, 1847; died March 7, 1866. He 
was a Union soldier. 



24 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

SARAH ROBERTS HALL AND FAMILY. 

SARAH, third child of Joseph and Esther, born in Buckfield, 
Me., May 6. 1782, and died in Brooks, ]\Ie.. November, 1859. 
She married Shadrach Hall, who was born in Buckfield, Me., 1779, 
and they had ten children. 

Sarah was an invalid the last twenty years of her life, and nearly 
blind, so she never went out ; but she bore her trials with Christian 
patience and fortitude. It was her delight to teach her young 
grandchildren to read, and fill their young minds with lessons 
from the Bible. It was said she ought to be called "Saint Sarah." 
She and her husband are buried in the Friends burying ground at 
Brooks, Me. 

The children of Sarah and Shadrach were : Hatevil. Sarah 
Ann, Marv. William, Eliza, Enoch and Ruth (who died in 
infancy), Abigail, Nathan, Miriam. 

HATEVIL HALL was bom. December, 1803 ; married Charity 
Lenfast. May, 1828, who died January, 1871. i. JOHN, their 
son. born August 10, 1829, was married March, 1856, to Marcia, 
daughter of Timothy Roberts. Two children were born to them : 
Albert, born 1858, went west, and Eldora, born 1864, died in 
1868. 

2. SHADRACH HALL, second son. born January i, 1831, 
still lives in Brooks, Me. June 19, 1853. he married Mary Ann 
Bassick. 

They had seven children: I. Persis. born February 22. 1855; 
died March 3, 1855. 2. Melvin. born March 30. 1856; dierl De- 
cember 9. 1867. 3. George L., born February 2. 1858; married 
Nellie llall, who died in 1895. They had one daughter. 

George L. married Cora Pettengill for his second wife. 

4. Ella Mae. born June 27, i860; died January 3, 1868. 

5. Charles E.. born November 22, 1862; married Hattie 
Averill June 27, 1890. They have one child. Leroy Hall, bom 
October 29. 1891. 

6. Ransom, born February 22, 1864, resides in Brooks. Me. 
7. Wilfred, l)orn February 22, 1871, married Hattie Taylor 
November 15, 1893. Their children are: Alton, bom March 27, 
1895: Lida, born June 6, 1897. They live in Fairfield, Me. 

3! SOl'HRONIA HALL, third child of Hatevil, was born 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 25 

January 13, 1833. She married James Andrews, Deceml)er i, 
1855, who died in the army, December 13, 1862. 

Cora E. Andrews, their first child, was born June i, 1857. 
She married Fred M. Taylor October 9, 1880. 

Emma A. Andrews, their second child, was born August 7, 
1858. She married Frank C. Gould December 23, 1877. They 
have two children, Cora L., born June 20, 1879, ^^^ James' 
Andrews, born February 11, 1882. 

Cora L. Gould, married Wallace C. Jordan December 15, 1896. 
Their one cJiild, Gerald Wallace Jordan, was born March 16. 1899. 

Everett C. Andrews, the third child, was born May 21, i860. 
He married ]\Jaude Fluston February, 1895. After a trip to Klon- 
dike he has settled in Hartford, Conn. He is a hatter by trade. 

(Everett C. Andrews has three children by a previous marriage, 
viz., James M. Andrews, born April 21, 1881 ; Fred J. Andrews, 
born November 15. 1886, and Gertrude M. Andrews, born April 
21, 1890.) 

3. Sophronia Hall Andrews married again June 8, 1869, 
Andrew J. Given, who died June 6, 1888. 

4. ENOCH, the fourth child of Hatevil, was born November, 
1834, and died February 9, 1901. He married Ellen, daughter 
of Arthur Hall, July, 1857, who died. They had two children, 
Louisa and Nellie. 

Enoch married Susan Stevens August 22, 1863, ^o^ his second 
wife. They had six children: i. Louisa Hall, born April 13, 
1858; married Edwin York of Unity, November 20, 1875. 
Children, Everett York, bom October 6, 1876; Evelyn York, born 
July 15, 1880; Nellie York, born July 9, 1886. 2. Nellie Hall, 
born January 16, i860: married George Hall: died, 1895, leaving 
one child, Bertha, born 1886. 3. Annie G. Hall, born December 
18, 1864: married Melvin Roberts. Two children, Cecelia Maude 
and Earle Melvin, Brooks, Me. 4. Waldo E., born March 6, 
1866: married Lucy Dyer. Three children, Gertie, Zelma and 
Alfred, who died. Brooks. Me. 5. Walter, born March 6. 1866; 
married Fannie Rowe. Two children, Leon W. and Blanche; 
reside in Clinton. Me. 6. Edith L., born April 17, 1870: married 
George Walker. Three children, Madge, Maude and Nina ; reside 
in Alonroe, 'Me. 7. Everett H., born March 5, 1873: married 
Mary Danforth. Four children, Jessie, Hazel, Morris, Geneva; 



26 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

reside in W aicrvillc. ^le. 8. Hale R.. born April 24, 1880; mar- 
ried Sadie Stimpson, June 25, 1898. Two children, Viola, died 
1899: Raymond, born 1900; reside in Brooks, 'Sle. 

5. C0LE:\1 AX, fifth child of Hatevil. was born October, 1836 ; 
married Persis Boody, October 19, 1856, and died March i, 1894. 
His widow and three children live in Brooks', Me. 

Five children were born to them: i. Ethel R. Hall, born 
March 2y. 1859; married Herman C. Stover, September 5, 1896. 

2. Ehner O. Hall, born August 13, 1861 ; married Hattie A. 
Drinkwater. Their children were: Ira L.. born July 8, 1890, and 
Roy T.. born September 12, 1891. 3. Albert A. Hall, bom 
November 7, 1862; married Emma Moulton January 9, 1897. 4. 
Myra H. Hall, born December 20. 1865 ; died January 27, i86b. 
5. Ralph E. Hall, born May 23, 1867; died July 9, 1878. 

6. LAURA, sixth child of Hatevil Hall, born September 12, 
1838; married Levi Hauver, July 3, i860; died November 15, 
1867. They had no children. 

7. DIREXA, seventh child of Hatevil, born April i, 1841 ; 
married Reuben Allen, September 12, 1868, and died December 12, 
1876. They had two children, Ivory B., born August 16, 1869, 
and Bertha M., born April 27, 1872. 

WILLIAM HENRY, eighth child of Hatevil, born January 
24, 1844, was lost at sea. 

Sx^RAH ANN, second child of Sarah and Shadrach Hall, mar- 
ried Francis Allen. She died August 1887. 

MARY C. third child of Sarah and Shadrach Hall, was bom 
June 19, 1809: married Paul Hall, October 2, 1835; and died 
October 28. 1882. They had four children, as follows: i. MARY 
ELIZABETH, born March 25, 1839; married Charles Peevey of 
Brooks, Me., and died in 1865. 2. OLR'E ANN, born October 

3, 1840: married John Gilmore August 3, i860. The children 
were Ellen and Mabel, who died in 1865. 3. Clarence, bom 
1863, lives in Waldo. 4. Nellie Mabel, lx)rn 1865; married Wil- 
liam (iilky. who keeps a dry goods store in Boston. 5. John A., 
born October 3, 1870, is also a dry goods dealer. 

3. EMILY A. HALL, born January 4, 1844. married Freeman 
Forbes, March 14, 1866. 

4. MELMNA HALL, born December 2, 1848, married John 
Dickey. June 2t,. t866. Two children were born to them, viz. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 27 

Lizzie Bell, born October 14, 1868, and Walter Percy, born Jan- 
uary 12, 1872. 

The latter was married August 15, 1900, to Grace M. Jenkins, 
daughter of Hattie Roberts Jenkins. They live in Brooks, Me. 

ELIZA HALL, fourth child of Sarah and Shadrach, was bom 
February 15, 1812. June 3, 1833, she married Robert Mitchell. 
She was a school teacher, he was a farmer, and both were devoted 
Christian people. He died in 1880. She died November 7, 1895, 
in the home in Alonroe, where she had lived over half a century. 
They had six children. 

Mary Ann, born in Monroe, January 11, 1835 ; married Charles' 
Oren Foss, October 29, 1859. They live in Jackson, Me. She was 
called a veteran school teacher. He is a farmer, and noted in his 
community as a stanch temperance man. He is charter member 
of George E. Brackett Lodge, which was organized March, 1875, 
and is now in a flourishing condition in Jackson. Their two 
daughters, Mabelle Eliza, born December 23, 1863, and Alice 
Maud, born February 24, 1867, both joined the Free Baptist 
church (of which their parents were members), the former at 
the age of thirteen, and Alice when but ten years of age. They 
were both school teachers. 

Mabel died of consumption April 2, 1890, and Alice died April 

21, 1898. 

Eliza's second daughter, Abby Jane, born April i, 1836, died 
April 28, 1837. 

Eliza's third daughter, Lovina Abby, born November 11, 1838, 
in Monroe, married, October 19, 1856, Isaiah Hall Bryant. They 
live in Brooks, Me. Their son, Eugene L. Bryant, born August 

22, 1858, married, July 4, 1878, Clara E. Gay of Waldo, Me. 
They had one child. Minnie, born February 22. 1879; married, 
October 6, 1895, Isaac F. Hustus. Florence Hustus was born 
February 9, 1897. On January i, 1884, Eugene Married Annie 
R. Eaton of Waldo, Me. Elmer J. was born November 12, 1884. 

Eugene has charge of the "City Farm" on Long Island, Boston 
Harbor. 

Lovina's second son, Levi Mitchell Bryant, w^as born July 14, 
1865, and married Alice Cilley January i, 1886. Everard A. was 
born April 21, 1893. Levi conducts a profitable dairy business on 
his farm in Waldo, Me. 



28 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

Eliza Mitcheirs fourth child was Levi Harrison, bom March 
26, 1 84 1. He enlisted in the Fourth Elaine, Company F, Sep- 
tember 2, 1862, and died in the battle of Fredericksburg December 
13. 1862. His comrade wrote home that though he was a recruit 
of only three months he was as brave as the oldest soldiers. 

Eliza Mitchell's fifth child. Sarah Jerusha, born June 14, 1843, 
married Jeremiah Bowen. August 3. 1862. She died October 12, 
1888. Children: i. Albert J. Bowen, born September, 1863; 
married, 1887, Estclle, daughter of Ezra Pattee, of Monroe, Me. 
Albert lives in Monroe. He is a farmer. 2. Lindley Harrison 
Bowen, bom June, 1874, lived in Monroe till 1897, when he went 
to Boston. He is in the street railway service. 

Eliza Mitchell's sixth child, Elizabeth Jane, born April 18, 1846, 
died February 9, 1856. 

5. WILLIAM PRESCOTT HALL, fifth child of Sarah and 
Shadrach, was lx)rn about 181 5. He married Olive Whitney in 
1837. He lived for many years in \\'interport, ]Me., where he was 
recognized as a leading citizen. A man of superior intelligence and 
excellent character, he died there January 25. 1871. Their chil- 
dren : I. Herbert W. Hall, born February 4, 1838; died in 1853. 
2. Emily M. Hall, Ijorn October 21, 1840; a dealer in dry goods, 
Winterport, Me. 3. Ellen F. Hall, born August 10, 1842; mar- 
ried Fred Low Januarv 8, 1868, and died February 20, 1870. 4. 
Frank A. Hall, born April 30, 1848. 

6. ENOCH, sixth child of Sarah and Shadrach, died in in- 
fancy. 

7. RL^TH, seventh child, also died in infancv. 

8. ABIGAIL, eighth child of Sarah and Shadrach, married 
Samuel Hubbs. She died October, 1883 J no children. 

9. NATHAN, ninth child, died unmarried, November 29, 
1867. 

10. MIRIAM, tentli child, married Rev. Humphrey Small. 
She died childless in May, 1890. 

Sarah and Shadrach's children all lived in Brooks, Me., except 
Eliza, who resided in Monroe, Me., and William P.. who lived 
for many years in Winterport, Me., where he died. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 29 

ISAAC AND JACOB. 

May 10, 1784, was a day of rejoicing in the home of the old 
soldier, Joseph, Roberts, for, after nearly seven years of wedded 
life, unto him a son was given, and not only one, but two of those 
much-needed blessings in those days, when man was needed to 
till the soil and make the wilderness bloom. 

These first boys they named Isaac and Jacob. Let us put Isaac 
first, in Bible fashion, for all of Esther's children were devoted 
Christians, and must have been brought up under Christian influ- 
ences, which guided their whole lives. Isaac and Jacob grew to 
manhood on their fatlier's farm, and when they became of age, 
feeling the need of a better education than could be obtained in the 
home school, they went to the Hebron Academy, and improved 
their advantages as' few young men of that time could. 

There was such a strong resemblance in the twins that when 
they were boys they had to dress them differently to distinguish 
them. This resemblance continued through life, and when grown 
to manhood they were frequently mistaken for each other, and 
it was hard to convince some who hailed Isaac on the street that 
he was not the Doctor. Their own children could not always' tell 
them apart. Isaac never had his picture taken, but one of Jacob 
will easily answer for both. 

Isaac was for many years a successful teacher. His specialty 
was English grammar, in which he became acknowledged author- 
ity throughout the country w^here he resided, when all went to 
him to settle disputed questions in parsing. With his farming 
he also held a responsible position as land agent in several towns 
in Waldo county (for a syndicate), with headquarters in Belfast, 
Me., from 1840 to 1850. He lived in Belfast three years, while 
in the business of turning machines, with his son Milton. After 
this he returned to Brooks, Me. 

He was not active in politics, but had decided convictions as to 
right and wrong, and always voted as long as he was able to go 
to the polls. He was one of the first six voters in his town of 
Brooks, Me., who cast their ballots for the Anti-Slavery party, 
voting for "Birney" for President, in 1840. 

From early childhood he was a total abstainer. It was the cus- 
tom then to work out the highway taxes with the aid of New Eng- 



30 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

land rum. The first year Isaac paid his share, but instead of 
drinking his rum he poured it out beside the road, much to the 
disgust of the others. After that he never even contributed to- 
ward buying the rum. 

He was an active member of the Freewill Baptist Church for 
some time, eventually uniting with the Quakers, in which faith 
he died, October 4, 1862. 

Among his last words were, "I will arise and gird myself and 
go forth and serve them," which was characteristic of his whole 
life. After his fatal attack of paralysis, he could say but little, 
his very last words being, "Peace, great peace." 

ISAAC ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

ISAAC ROBERTS married first, in 1810, Abigail Merrill of 
Hebron, Me., who bore him seven children and died in 1834. 

JUSTIN ROBERTS, the first child of Isaac and Abigail, was 
born in 181 1 in Brooks, Me., and died April, 1846. He was mar- 
ried in 1836 to Mary Jane McLeod, who was born in 18 13 and 
died in 1863. 

They had three children — viz. : i. Abigail Sarah, born August 
10, 1838, married Corydon G. Ireland of St. Albans, Me., March 
15, i860. He was in the Civil War, enlisting in a California regi- 
ment. They live in Lewiston, Me. Their children were : 

Benjamin Randall Ireland, born January 12, 1868; died No- 
vember 27, 1872. 

Carrie Estelle Ireland, born March 31, 1870, in Pittsfield, Me. 
She was married to Eugene Leslie Hutchins in Lewiston, Me., 
March 31, 1890, and died June 30, 1892. 

2. Charles Justin Roberts was bom in Brooks, Me., November 
9, 1843. and died there April 13, 1892. He was for three years 
a member of Company I, Fourteenth Maine Infantry. He was 
married March 20, 1864, in China, Me., to Maranda W. Warren. 
They had four children, viz. : 

Alberta, born in Brooks, Me., June 30, 1866; died August 20, 
1869. 

Lelia, born in Brooks March 9, 1868; died August 17, 1869. 

Melzar, born in Belfast, Me., September 20, 1871 ; died April 
II, 1892. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



31 



Evie E., born in Searsport, Me., January 14, 1877. 

3. Hannah Alaria Roberts, born in Brooks, Me., January 27, 
1846; died March 20, 1895. She married in Lewiston, Me., Sep- 
tember 2T^, 1871, Chandler E. Wiggin of China, Me., who died 
in November, 1872. 

MILTON M. ROBERTS, second child of Isaac and Abigail, 
was born in Brooks, Me., January 4, 181 5, and died in Minneapo- 
lis, Minn., April 28, 1895. He received his education in the district 
schools and Hebron Academy. He became a most successful 
teacher in Brooks, Me., and other towns, also in New York. At 
one time he had twenty-seven Roberts descendants among his 
scholars. 





MILTON ROBERTS, 
Son of Isaac Roberts. 



ELIZABETH ROBERTS, 
Wife of Milton Roberts. 



He was a wood-turner by trade, and invented an improved 
turning lathe, a steam plow and several useful improvements in 
machinery, some of which he patented. He was brought up in 
the religious belief of the Quakers. Was one of the first to vote 
the Abolition ticket. Was a Freemason, and was buried by them. 

He went to Minnesota in 1864, and was one of the pioneers 
of Anoka and Minneapolis. 

In August, 1843, lie married Elizabeth Cates Roberts, daughter 
of Joseph Roberts of Brooks, Me. She was a cheerful, hopeful, 



32 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

energetic woman, and a great help and comfort to him in later 
years, when he. like ]\Iilton. the illustrious poet, became blind. 

He was a kind husband and father and had all his mental facul- 
ties at the time of his death at the age of eighty. His wife did 
not long survive him. She died in Minneapolis, December 5, 1895. 

Milnm and Elizabeth had four children, viz.: (i^ Victoria 
Elizabeth, who was born in Brooks, Me., April 29, 1844. She was 
a bright child, learning to read in the Bible and other books at 
such an early age that they had to be taken from her. She died 
in Levant. Me.. July 5, 1849. -• Milton M. Roberts, born in 
Levant. ]\Ie., April 22, 1847. He lives in Minneapolis, Minn. 
3. Evelyn V., bom in Levant, Me., November 5, 1849; married 
Frank Tippett in 1870. She is now a widow and keeps hotise for 
her brother and sister in Minneapolis. She had one child, Bertie, 
born in 1871, who died in childhood. '4. Jessie L., born June 12, 
1862, in Jefferson, Wis., also lives in Minneapolis. 

CLARKSON B. ROBERTS, third child of Isaac and Abigail, 
born about 181 8, was a Methodist clerg\'man and died in Los 
Angeles, Cal., October, 1896. He married i\Iar)' Nickerson of 
Waldo, Me., who was living in California in the summer of 1901, 
but was very feeble. She was a very gifted woman, an excellent 
teacher and lived a life filled wdth good works. They had but one 
child, which died young. 

ADDISON J. ROBERTS, fourth child of Isaac and Abigail, 
born about 1822, died in Brooks, Me., in 1867. He was unmar- 
ried. 

ISAAC PENNINGTON ROBERTS, son of Isaac and Abi- 
gail, was born in IJrooks, Me., October 18, 1826. He lived on 
the farm with his father and attended the district school till he 
was fourteen, when he was sent to China, Me., to "Friend" Elijah 
Winslow to learn the trade of shoemaker. After that he went to 
Lynn, Mass., and in 1855 became interested in religion and, feeling 
that he was called to the work of the ministry, he began the 
preparation, as best he could, attending a Conference Seminary 
in Qiarlotteville, N. Y.. for that purpose. There was a pressing 
need for more ministers, and he was persuaded to begin work, 
entering the East Maine Methodist Conference in 1857. He gave 
thirteen years to the regular work of the ministry, and was then, 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



33 



on account of his health, obHged to retire for two years. In 1871 
he took up the work again, in the Wisconsin Conference, where 
he continued for about twelve years. Then, feeling his health was 
not sufficient to enable him to do the full work of the ministry, 
he retired, and is now a superannuate in the Wisconsin Confer- 
ence, residing on Fifth street, Milwaukee, Wis. 

On November 25, 1852, Isaac P. Roberts married Miss Harriet 
Stanley, who was born in Harrison, Me., October 27, 1832. Four 





HARRIET ROBERTS. ISAAC PENNINGTON ROBERTS, 

Wife of Isaac P. Roberts. Son of Isaac Roberts. 



children were born to them, as follows: (i) Justin Everett 
Roberts, born October 10. 1855; died September 21, 1856. 

Leslie Manter, son of Isaac P. and Harriet S. Roberts, was 
born in the town of Carmel, Me., March 28, 1857. He moved 
west with his parents, to Wisconsin, in 1868. He attended the 
district schools at the different places where his father was sta- 
tioned as pastor, until 1876, when he entered Lawrence Univer- 
sity at Appleton, Wis., as a preparing student. After two years' 
study he entered the freshman class, taking the scientific course. 
Here he pursued his studies until 1881, when he went to the Wis- 
consin State University at Madison, completed his course, and 
took his degree of A. B. in the following year. In 1884 he began 



34 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

the work of teaching as principal of hii^h schools, which he con- 
tinued for eight years. He taught also as professor of English 
literature in the South Side High School. Milwaukee, for one 




LESLIE MANTER ROBERTS. 
Son of Isaac P. Roberts. 

year, since which lime hv lias been cnii)l(j_\ccl in mercantile pur- 
suits, in which he is now engaged in the city of New York. 

(3) Sclwyn rrcniicc Roberts was born February, 1862. and 
died August 26, 1863. (4) Herbert Elwyn Roberts was born 
July 30, 1864, and died .\ugust 31. 1867. Two infant daughters 
died unnamed. 

Abigail Merrill Roberts died in 1834 and Isaac married Sarah 
Cobb of Limerick, York County, Me. She was born July 16, 
1799, and died June 20, 1884. They had two children, a daughter 
named Sophronia, who died about 1843, ^^'^^^ ''"^ son, \V.\RREN 
NORTON k( )rd-:RTS. born May _\ 183;;. who lived at home in 
Brooks, Me., until be was twent}- years of age, tlien he taught 
school in Brooks and other adjacent towns. In 1872 he went to 
Lowell, Mass., to work for the Locks and Canal Company. In 
1876 he was employed by the city of Lowell as janitor for the 
high school and remained for seventeen years in that position. 
Then he went into the grocery business, but failing health com- 
pelled him to give up all business a few years ago. He still lives 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 35 

in Lowell. He was married to Mary E. Parsons in Brooks, Me., 
February 19, 1862. She died April 10, 1863, leaving a son, 
Willie M., bom April 2, 1863, who died in Lowell, Mass., October 
22. 1888. ^^'arren married Lovisa, widow of Oilman Roberts, in 
Brooks, I\Ie., October 29, 1864. She died in Lowell, Mass., Jan- 
uary II, 1891. On April 10, 1892, Warren married Georgia A. 
Robinson in Lowell, Mass. She died September 10, 1894, in 
Lowell, Mass. 

We learn, as our forms are locked up for the press, of the death 
of Warren Norton Roberts, which occurred at his home in Low- 
ell. Mass.. January ist, 1902. 



36 THE ROBERIS FAMILY. 

JACOB ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

J ACQ P. ROBERTS, son of Joseph Roberts, the revohitionary 
soldier, was born in Buckfield, Maine, May lo. 1784, and died in 
North Vassalboro. Maine, March 15, 1856. He was a most 
remarkable man, who in his day was second to none in the State 
of Maine for knowledge and skill as a physician and surgeon. 

He had no educational advantages and only commenced learn- 
ing to read at the age of fifteen years, his father giving him his 
time at the age of eighteen. At the age of twenty-five he re- 
ceived his diploma to practice medicine, having paid all of his 
own expenses 1)\- working on his father's farm and in other 
pursuits, latterly having taught school during the winters. One 
year later, in 1810, he married Huldah Mouiton Myrick. of 
Hebron, Maine, and located in Brooks, Maine, where his 
father had made the first settlement about twelve years previ- 
ous, building him a log house a mile north of the small village 
and a half mile from any other resident, where he brought his 
young wife and infant son Hamlin, and was immediately called 
away to a patient twenty miles distant, the country being very 
sparsely settled and his field of practice extending a circle of 
50 miles, which he covered on horseback with his saddlebags. 
A very severe snow storm arose in his absence, the huge drifts 
preventing his return home for several days. In the meantime 
his wife and child had a most narrow escape from perishing 
from the severe cold weather through lack of fuel, as the nearest 
neighbor, a Mr. Ham, was not aware of the arrival of his fam- 
ily from Buckfield, but saw some evidences that led him to go 
to their relief. 

Dr. Roberts practiced his profession in lirooks for nearly 
forty years, passing the last ten years of his life in North 
Vassalboro, where he had a very large practice, to which he 
was succeeded by Dr. Henry J. Barrows, who married his 
daughter Jane, who in turn was succeeded by Dr. Francis 
Alton Roberts, a grandson. 

Dr. Jacob Roberts was a man of great observation, with a 
liberal and broad mind. He was a close and progressive student 
and watched with intense interest the introduction of the 
Hahnemann .=ystem of practice b\' the brothers, Dr. Paviie of 




DR. JACOB ROBERTS, 

Son of Joseph and Esther. 



38 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

Bath, Me., ami Dw I'aync of Belfast, Me., the latter, v.hose 
success ill dealing' with some most serious cases within liis 
circuit led Dr. Roberts to call upon him with the result that 
he became a speedy convert and the third practitioner of 
homeopathy in Maine, in which he achieved most eminent suc- 
cess. 

He was the first to establish that system of practice in Kennebec 
Count}-, and in the language of Dr. Bradford of Lewiston : "Dr. 
Roberts did more than any ten doctors ever did to establish and 
build up homeopathy in the state of Maine," for he was the most 
enthusiastic one that ever lived, and he was so well known all 
over the state, from having been the ]n-incipal consulting doctor 
east of Portland so long, he was still sent for to counsel after he 
adopted homeoj)ath\-. and never lost an opportunity to convert a 
doctor when called as a last resort to a supposed hopeless case. 
But with his new method was in many instances able to efifcct a 
recovery, which made converts of old school physicians. 

While closely ccjnfined to his extensive practice, he found time 
to devote to his farm and some large business interests. 

His inlluence among his neighbors upon all public and political 
questions was most pronounced when disposed to exercise the 
same, which he rarely did. a notable exception being in the 
campaign of 1840, wdien he made a great effort as a Whig for 
William Henry Harrison for President (Tippecanoe and Tvler, 
too), the town of Brooks (in the overwhelming Democratic 
county of Waldo) giving his candidates 171 to 69 for A'an 
Buren. a larger vote than was ever polled in Brooks at any one 
time previously or the following sixty years. His political work 
was all done quietly as he engaged in the regular practice of his 
prolession. and the result was a surprise. One of his Demo- 
cratic neighbors ( Squire Morse), in explaining the abnormal 
Whig majority, said: "It was that old switch tail horse of 
Dr. Roberts that did the work for the Whigs." Dr. Roberts 
very soon thereafter enrolled himself a member of the abolition 
party, as he concluded that the southern wing of the Whig party 
would always prevent any action looking to the liberation of the 
slaves. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 39 

Dr. Roberts in religion early embraced the Quaker faith, 
and was a devoted follower of that church, using the language 
and wearing rhe l)road-brimmed hat and plain garb of that 
sect, among whom, in the Quaker town of Vassalboro, he passed 
his latter years. 

Dr. Roberts was a man of great benevolence and the number 
of his patients who contributed nothing to his financial sup- 
port far outniunbered those who paid their family ph3^sician, 
yet so extensive was his practice that he accumulated a hand- 
some property for those days, only to lose the greater part 
of the same through the incompetency of his active partners 
in a large land and timber speculation. 

He left several sons who became prominent in the political, 
financial and professional world, the youngest, Dr. Wni. P. 
Roberts of Janesville. Wis., being the only survivor, with one 
datighter, Mrs. Jane Barrows of Boston, Mass. 

He lived on the Roberts Hill, in Brooks, Me., till 1845, when 
lie removed to North Vassalboro, where he died March 15, 1856. 

He married twice — first, in 1810, to Huldah Myrick, daughter 
of Beezaleel and Huldah Moulton Myrick. She was born in 
North Yarmouth in 1793 and died April 6, 1845, of paralysis. 

Jacob married Abby Jenkins of Vassalboro, Me., for his second 
wife, March, 1852. She died in August, 1852. 

Jacob and Huldah had eleven children : 

(i) Hamlin Myrick, (2) Jacob Wellington, (3) Amorena De- 
borah, (4) Barnabus Myrick, (5) Charles Linneus, (6) Forteus 
Beezaleel, (7) Emily Esther, (8) Pliebe Young, (9) Huldah 
Jane, (10) Ellen Cecilia, (11) \\'illiani Pinknev. 



40 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

I. HAMLIN MYRICK ROBERTS, born in Buckfield, Me., 
1811, died in Brooks, Me., June, 1856, at the old homestead of his 
fatlier. having sold his residence and farm in South Jackson a 
few months before. He married Mary Ann Rich, daughter of 



HAMLIN MYRICK ROBERTS 
and His Wife, 
MARY ANN ROBERTS. 

Joseph Rich, in 1835. ^^^e died in 1877 in East Dixfield, Me., 
the wife of Rev. Dexter Waterman, whom she married in 1859 
at Unity, Me. 

All of their married life was passed on their farm, South Jack- 
son, adjoining the farm of the father. Dr. Jacob Roberts, which 
was located in Brooks township, one mile north of the present 
village of Brooks. 

Hamlin Roberts received the common school education of 
those days, was an industrious, hard-working farmer to the 
day of the sickness which resulted in his death. He was great- 
ly respected by his neighbors and townsmen, and while tak- 
ing a deep interest in public affairs always refused to accept the 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 41 

suffrages of his fellow-citizens, who repeatedly offered him local 
offfce. 

He was an abolitionist from the foundation of that party in 
Maine, having, with a Mr. Oilman and one other gentleman, 
given the three votes to Birney for president in the town of 
Jackson in 1840. He retained his allegiance to the Quaker 
Church to the end and attended their simple service every 
Sunday morning with his wife, who was a member of the Free 
Will Baptist Church, giving the afternoon service to the church 
of his wife. 

He was a charter member of the Waldo County Agricultural 
.Society which held its annual fair and stock show at Belfast, 
the county seat, and was for several years a director in that 
organization, which many years ago lost its force and impor- 
tance by reason of divided opinions and the formation of local 
societies in other parts of the county. The children of Hamlin 
and Mary Ann Rich Roberts — Allen Hamlin Roberts and 
Cassius Clay Roberts, living, who both reside in Chicago, 111.; 
Dr. Frances Alton Roberts, who died in 1892; Emily Roberts, 
born in 1840, died in 1848; Nelson Roberts, born in 1842, killed 
in 1848, being crushed by a block of granite house foundation 
falling on him. 

I. Allen Hamlin Roberts, the first child, was born February 
22, 1836, in Jackson, Me., was educated at New Hampton Semi- 
nary, New Hampshire, and high school of Samuel Johnson, a not- 
ed educator of Waldo County, Me. Allen taught school in Maine, 
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, went to Illinois in 1857, located 
at Elmwood, wdiere he was local agent for Peoria & Oquawka 
R. R., now a part of the Burlington system; was in the stock 
business there, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Chicago, 111., for many 
years. He married in 1863 Kate Weatherhead of Pawtucket, R. 
I. They had one daughter, Katie, who died in Chicago at the age 
of nine years. They reside in Chicago, 111. 



42 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

2. Francis Alton Roberts, son of Hamlin M. Roberts, was born 
in Jackson, Maine, Aug. 9, 1838. and died in W'aterville, Maine, 
May 26, 1892. He was educated at tbe district school in South 
Jackson, the private fall schools taught by Samuel Johnson, 
and at New Hampton Seminary, New Hampshire. With his 
brothers he was ])ut to the bard farm work at a tender age, 
onh' abandoning" the same with the connnencement of his med- 




DR. FRANCIS ALTON ROBERTS. 
Son of Hamlin Roberts. 

ical studies. He attended lectures at Dartmouth College but 
decided to adopt the medical faith of his grandfather and took 
the course at Hahnemann Homeopathic College of Philadelphia, 
where he graduated in 1861. He commenced practice in China, 
Me., where he married Miss Mary F. Huzzy, December, 1861, by 
whom he had one child. Emily, who died in 1873 ^^ the age of 
three years. He practiced his profession for a brief time at 
both Taunton, Mass.. and (iardner, Maine, more than ten 
years at North \'assalboro, Maine, and the latter ten years of 
his life in W'aterville, Maine. He was devoted strictly to his pro- 
fession in which he achieved great success. Was an ardent 
lover of fine horses, having owned some of the best stock in the 
state, and was a man of most sterling qualities who had the 
sincere respect of all with whom he associated or wherever he 
was known. 

3. Emily Roberts, born 1840, died 1848. 

4. Nelson Roberts, born 1842, died 1848. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 43 

5. Cassius Clay Roberts was born in Jackson, Me., March 5, 
1845. After death of his father he lived in North Vassalboro, 
Me., with his uncle, Dr. J. H. Barrows, at Unity, 
Me., with his mother in 1858, at West Charleston, 
Vt., and Gray, Me. ; 1859 to 1861 with Rev. Dexter Waterman, 
who married his mother. Attended Maine State Seminary, 
Lewiston, Me., terms of 1859 to 1861. Cassius enlisted in Tenth 
Maine Infantry in July, 1861, having- been refused acceptance 
in First Maine three months' regiment by reason of his age. He 
served the full term of the regiment, was wounded at the battle 
of Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862. Mustered out May 3, 
1863. Immediately accepted a commission in Fourth Louisiana; 
afterward 8ist U. S. Colored regiment, in company of Capt. 
Thomas S. Cates. He commanded a company at siege of Port 
Hudson, La. Returned to Maine and entered Company L, First 
Maine Heavy Artillery, Dec. 4, 1863 ; was sergeant, second 
lieutenant Company L, first lieutenant Company B ; mustered out 
September 11, 1865, with rank of captain by brevet; wounded 
May 19, 1864, at Spottsylvania, Va. He took a course in winter 
of 1865 at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie. N. Y. ; 
was bookkeeper for Roberts & Hichborn, Stockton, Me., 1866; 
entered Bethany College, W. Va., 1867; became a member of 
shipbuilding firm of Colcord, Berry & Co. in Stockton, Me., 1869; 
kept a general store in Stockton, Me., 1872 to 1880: political 
reporter and correspondent for Boston Globe from state 
of Maine, 1878 to 1882; in produce commission business 
in Boston, Mass., 1882 to 1884; kept grocery and mar- 
ket in Chicago, 1884 to 1887; superintendent second, 
third and fourth class matter in Chicago postoffice, 1888; resigned 
January i, 1889, to commence publication of "Southwest Chi- 
cagoan," to which has since been added the "Chicago Opinion" 
and six other weekly papers by West Chicago Press Association, 
of which he is still editor, January i, 1902. 

Cassius was first selectman of Stockton, Me., 1876- 1877- 1878; 
was state senator from Waldo County in 1879; left the Republican 
party with Horace Greeley ; was a delegate to the Na- 
tional Convention that nominated him for the presidency. Mem- 
ber of Democratic State Committee from Waldo County, three 
years. Chairman of Congressional Committee. Returned to the 




CASSIUS CLAY ROBERTS. 

Son of Hamlin Roberts. 










PAULINE ROBERTS LAWLER, JAMES J. LAWLER, 

Daughter of C. C. Roberts. Husband of Pauline Roberts. 







f 



r^»r 



PAREPA ROSA ROBERTS, 
Daughter of C. C. Roberts. 



46 THT-: ROBF.RTS FAMILY. 

Republican party in 1897. He married Pauline E. Col- 
cord of Stockton. Me., December 31, 1868. who died 
November 30. 1875. Two children were born to them, 
Parepa R., August 7, 1869, who resides with her father, and 
Pauline E.. bom August 15, 1875, ^^ho married, February 13, 

1897, James J. Lawler of Winsted, Conn., assistant superintendent 
of Winsted Silk Co., Chicago, where they reside. January 5, 

1898, Cassius married Margaret Bennett, who died August 28, 

1899, One child, Cassius Philip Roberts, born July 29, 1899; 
died June 22, 1901, from gasoline given by his nurse, who was 
undoubtedly insane. 

From 1891 to 1896 Cassius was proprietor of the Millard Ave- 
nue Hotel in the Lawndale district, Chicago. He was also for 
several years a reporter for the Chicago City Press Association. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 47 

2. JACOB WELLINGTON, second son of Jacob, was bom 
in Brooks, Me., November 29, 1813, and died December 18, 1849. 

He acquired his education in the district schools and the 
"Friends School" in Providence, R. L, and became a successful 
teacher in the towns of Waldo and Knox counties. 

On Ivlay 22, 1836, he married Phebe Susan, daughter of Isaac 
and Chloe Abbot of Jackson, Me. She was born on Sears Island, 
Me., May 24, 1818, and died in Brooks, Me., December 26, 1844, 
having had four children. 

For four years after marriage, Wellington kept the village 
store at Brooks, Me., exchanging goods for produce which was 
shipped to and from Boston by packet. After this, he took a farm 
in Jackson, Me., for a few years, but the illness and death of his 
wife broke up the family and he returned to teaching. 

Wellington was of pronounced literary tastes, a poet and prose 
writer of decided merit, who would have made a place in the lit- 
erary world but for his untimely death. His intimate friend and 
opponent in many of the old-fashioned debates at the county 
school houses, was Prof. Ezra Abbott, then a neighlior and cousin 
to his wife, who for forty years previous to his death while in 
active work held a professorship at Harvard College. Welling- 
ton's mind was a storehouse of general information and he was 
a close reasoner without a waste of words. He was the chosen 
champion of the Free Soil party of his locality to meet all oppo- 
nents, and his logic was most potent in creating a public senti- 
ment that made Brooks poll a plurarity for the Free Soil party 
at nearly every election for eight years before the formation of 
the Republican party. 

He was a zealous party man, first a Whig, then an Abolition- 
ist, and always a strong advocate for temperance. 

While traveling in the west he was seriously poisoned with field 
mercury and consumption set in. For two years he was a book- 
keeper for the Vassalboro Woolen Mills. 

In June, 1849, he married Jane Lippencott of South China, who 
cared tenderly for him till his death in December. 

I. Edward Junius, his first child, was born February 8, 1837; 
died January 4, 1838, in Brooks, Me. 



48 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



2. Edward Junius Roberts, the second son. was born in 
Brooks, Me., Februar}- lo, 1839. On the death of his father he 
went to live with his father's eldest sister. Amorena jManter. His 
uncle. Dr. Ezra Planter, took charge of him till he was eighteen. 
Soon after he began the study of dentistry, and. working his way 
upward, he graduated from Philadelphia Dental College, in 1865. 
He practiced in Vassalboro, Me., and surrounding towns, and. in 
1870, opened an office in Augusta. Me., and became the leading 
dentist in the state. He was one of the founders and an active 
worker in the Maine Dental Association. 




EDWARD JUNIUS ROBERTS, 
Son of Jacob Wellington Roberts. 

At the passage of the Maine dental law he was appointed by the 
governor as one of the Five Dental Examiners, and served as its 
chairman ten years. 

He joined the Methodist church in 1862, and has always been 
an ardent church worker. He is also interested in music, being a 
fine singer. He has long been a Mason and Knight Templar. 

On November 15, 1865, he married Emma Evans of Dixmont, 
Me. Their first child, (i) Arthur Wellington, was bom in North 
Vassalboro, August 20, 1868. The next was (2) Lottie Adelia, 
bom September 11. 1873. She died October 14. 1873. 3- Orville 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



49 



Leslie, born in Augusta, Me., October 21, 1874, still lives, and 
assists his father in his business in Augusta, Me. 

3. Freeman Myrick Roberts, the third son, was born in South 
Jackson, December 21, 1840. When his parents died he went to 
live with his uncle, Barnabas Roberts. He afterward went to live 
with the family of Benjamin York, and remained with him during 
his life. Before he was twenty-one his country called "To arms !" 
and he enlisted in Company F, Fourth Maine Infantry, for three 
years, giving a continuous faithful service for that time, partici- 




FREEMAN MYRICK ROBERTS, 
Son of Jacob Wellington Roberts. 

pating in all the engagements with his regiment from the first 
battle of Bull Run, through the battles of Gettysburg, The Wil- 
derness and Cold Harbor, with all that came between. What was 
left of him started for home July 19, 1864, and contentedly settled 
down on the farm. 

On February i, 1866, he married Aurelia Julana York, and 
they had a happy life together for thirty-three years. She died 
September 11, 1899, aged fifty-five years. In 1868 they moved 
from Jackson, Me., to Newport, Me., where he still resides. 

Their children were: i. Ella Mabel, born February 14, 1870; 
married, December 8, 1896, Oscar R. Emerson, who was bom 
April 12, 1872. He is a physician in Monson, Me. 



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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



2. Anna, born September 21, 1871 ; died August 24, 1872. 

3. Junius Everett Roberts, born February 14, 1875, married, 
November 17, 1897, Blanche Whittum of Lewiston, Me. He is 
principal of the High School, Presque Isle, Me. One child, Ed- 
ward Freeman Roberts, born October 14. 1901. 

4. Bertha Myra, bom July 3. 1877; died December 10, 1880. 

5. Amorena Gertrude, bom May 14, 1880; married June 2, 
1900, Bela Burrill of Kenduskeag, Me. Their daughter, Dorothy 
Burrill, born March 28, igor. in Newport, ^le. 




MRS. AMORENA GRANT, 
Daughter of Jacob Wellington Roberts. 



4. Amorena was the fourth child of Wellington Roberts, who 
named his one little girl, born November 5, 1842, for his beloved 
sister, Amorena Manter, and when lie fotmd himself nearing his 
last hours on earth, he sent her to live with her Aunt Amorena, in 
Brooks, Me, back to the home where he had started in life thirty- 
six years before. 

The little one lost her new mother two and one-half years after 
this, but her uncle, mindful of his promise of adoption, kept her 
with him till she %vas twenty. She lived in Brooks, Me., four 
years, Searsport two years, and in Winterport till 1862, when she 
started out in the world for herself. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 51 

She married, May 3, 1869, Lemuel C. Grant, son of Joseph 
Grant, of Frankfort, Me. He served through the war, first in the 
Fourth Maine, reinHsting in Nineteenth Maine, and was appoint- 
ed quartermaster sergeant in First Maine Regiment heavy artil- 
lery. He was discharged at the close of the war and took up 
the sailor's profession. He was the mate of the Bark Warren 
when she was lost with all on board in the summer of 1870. 

Mrs. Amorena Grant, granddaughter of Dr. Jacob Roberts and 
great-grandchild of Joseph Roberts. Jr., the revolutionary soldier, 
is the author of this book. "THE PUBLISHERS." 

3. AMORENA DEBORAH THERESA ROBERTS was 
the third child of Jacob and Huldah Roberts, born September 2, 
181 5. She died June 20, 1852. 

In 1836 she married Dr. Ezra Manter, who was bom in Wayne, 
Me., May 14, 181 1, and died in Winterport, December 22, 1881. 
There were no children. 



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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



4. BARNABAS MYRICK ROBERTS was the fourth child, 
bom October 17, 1818, in Brooks, Me., and died in Stockton, Me., 
December 20, 1896. His school advantages were most limited, 
but he was teaching- at the age of sixteen. In the years 1842 and 
1843 he was teaching in Kentucky, but returned home at the 
urgent request of his family and settled down on the farm in 
Soutli Jackson, Me., which his brother Wellington was holding 
for him. 



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BARNABUS MYRICK ROBERTS, 
Son of Dr. Jacob Roberts. 
And His Wife, 
EMELINE ROBERTS. 



He married at that lime Emeline Rich, daughter of Joseph 
Rich, and sister to Mary Ann, wife of his older brother Hamlin. 
He afterwards went to Rhode Island and studied Latin with his 
uncle, Joseph Myrick, which he taught winters, working on the 
farm the balance of seasons. 

He was proprietor of a general store at Brooks Village in 
1853 and 1854, and in 1855 became a partner with N. G. Hich- 
born of South Prospect, Me. (afterwards Stockton), under the 
name of Roberts & Hichborn, shipbuilding and general store, 
which continued until the death of Mr. Hichborn, about 1875, 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 53 

after which he was in the mercantile business alone until his 
death. 

B. M. Roberts was state senator for two years during the war 
of rebellion from Waldo county, and representative to the legisla- 
ture one year from Stockton. He was four years collector of cus- 
toms for Belfast, Me., four years postmaster of Stockton, Me. 

Politically he was originally a Whig, l>ecame an Abolitionist 
about 1844. Was one of the founders of the Republican party 
and always one of its trusted leaders in Waldo County. He 
was a man of great energy and determination, a ready debater 
and a prominent figure in the political arena of his county from 
1855 until his death. He was the recognized leader of one faction 
of the Republican party, Truman Harmon of Thorndike being 
the head of the other. Their last great struggle was had in 
1869, in the contest for U. S. senator between Hannibal Hamlin 
and Lot M. Morrill, Mr. Roberts supporting Hamlin. 

He was a candidate for the congressional nomination in 1866, 
but was defeated by the sitting member, Frederick A. Pike. 

Emeline, wife of Barnabas Roberts, died in Stockton, Me., 
December 19, 1893. They had seven children, viz.: i. An in- 
fant, born in January, 1844. 2. Ralph, bom in Jackson, Me., Sep- 
tember, 1845 > died in Stockton, Me., 1857. 3. Charles Sum- 
ner Roberts, born in Jackson, Me., August 21, 1851 ; married, 
January 18, 1877, Faustina Marden of Stockton, Me. He died 
February 16, 1882, in Stockton, leaving one son, Alton, bom 
March 9, 1880. 4. Hamlin Myrick Roberts, born in Jackson, 
May 15, 1853. He was lost at sea December, 1876, while mate 
of a ship. 5. Woodbury Davis Roberts was born in Stockton, 
Me., September 5, 1855. He married June 14, 1879, Evelyn 
Cheney of Stockton, who was born July 10, 1856. Their children 
are: i. Fred Barnabas, bom June 18, 1885. 2. Edward 
Cheney, bom March 28, 1892. 3. Elden Woodbury, born July 
I, 1897. They have resided for fifteen years in Centralia, Wash. 
6. Ellen Cecelia Roberts, sixth child of Barnabas, was 
bom in Stockton, Me., June 18, 1859. She married Franklin 
P. Flanders, November 7, 1899. He is a music teacher in Boston, 
Mass. 7. Frank Roberts was born in Stockton Januar}', 1864, 
and died there August 2, 1872. 



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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



5. CHARLES LIXXEUS, the fifth child of Jacob and Hul- 
dah, was bom in Brooks, Me., April 14, 1821, and died May 20, 
1896, in Yates City, Illinois, where he had resided for more than 
forty years. He was for many years a school teacher, was a mer- 
chant, hotelkeeper and justice of the peace, being a recognized 
authority in his locality upon history and public questions bv rea- 
son of his extensive reading and strict honesty. He acquired his 
education in the common schools and at the Quaker Colleee of 




CHARLES LINNEUS ROBERTS, 
Son of Dr. Jacob Roberts. 

Providence, Rhrxle Island. He was an early Abolitionist and al- 
ways a radical Republican. 

He was postmaster at Yates City. Ill, for three terms of four 
years each. 

In 1855 he married Caroline P. Metcalf of North Vassalboro, 
Me., who died in 1877. Their six children were: 

I. Emma Lucelia Roberts, born Xovcmber 10, 1856, died 
November 9, 1866, in Yates City, III. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 55 

2. Carrie Louise Roberts, bom May 4, 1863, married, January 
26, 1886, John Embrick Bear of Farmington, 111., They had two 
children: i. Floy Lorraine Bear, born July 18, 1887. 2. Lois 
Ina Bear, born June 20, 1892. 

3. Charles Addison Roberts, bom August 10, 1862, in Yates 
City, is the third child of Charles Linneus Roberts. He attended 
the common schools of his city until 1880, when he entered the 
employ of the C, B. & Q. R. R. Co., and remained in their em- 
ploy as agent at Elm wood until 1898, when he resigned to run for 
the office of clerk of the Probate Court of Peoria County, to which 
he was elected November of that year, and holds the office at 
present writing, January, 1902. June 5, 1889, he was married 
to Mary Wolcott of Quincy, 111., their children being: i. George 
Seacord Roberts, born January 9, 1891. 2. Isabel, born April 
15, 1893; died April 5, 1899. 3. Wolcott, born September i, 
1897. They reside in Peoria, 111. Charles A. is recognized as a 
prominent leader in the Republican party of his county. 

4. Georgia Anna, fourth child of C. L. Roberts, was born 
in Yates City, August 10, 1865. She resides in Peoria, 111. 

5. Ellen Lois Roberts, bora April 7, 1868, in Yates City. She 
is a school teacher in Peoria, 111. 

6. Blanche Lenore, bom September 7, 1873, in Yates City; 
married; February 22, 1898, Arthur Julian Lawrence of Yates 
City. One son, Linneus Atwood Lawrence, was bom November 
18, i8q8. Thev reside in Galesburg, 111. 




CHARLES ADDISON ROBERTS, 
Son of Charles L. Roberts. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



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6. PORTEUS BEEZALEEL ROBERTS, sixth child of 
Jacob, was bom July o.'j, 1823, in Brooks, Me., and died in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 4, 1888. He taught school in his young-- 
er days and while teaching in New York, June 17, 1848, mar- 
ried one of his pupils, Mary Ann Preckett of Lansingburg, N. Y,, 
who was born April 22, 1833, in Feresham, Kent Co., England. 
He went to Illinois in the latter part of 1848, taught school and, 
with his young wife endured many hardships, living for a time 
on a farm in Lake County, which he soon abandoned and returned 
to teaching penmanship, for in his day he was one of the best in 
the country. His health failing, he went farther south to Peoria 




PORTEUS B. ROBERTS, 
Son of Dr. Jacob Roberts. 



MARY ANN ROBERTS, 
Wife of P. B. Roberts. 



County and taught school near the present village of Elmwood, 
111., where he built the first frame house there about 1853 or 1854. 
The preliminary survey was made at that time of the old Peoria 
and Oquawka railroad, where he secured employment as rodman. 
His abilities and mathematical knowledge soon received recog- 
nition and he was rapidly advanced by General A. C. Harding 
of Monmouth, the president, and was superintenrlent of the di- 



58 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

vision when, after the road was completed to Burlington, Iowa, 
the great financial crash of 1857 compelled a lease of the same 
for ninety-nine years to the C, B. & Q. system. He also kept 
the leading hotel in Peoria, where he sold and went to Chicago, 
taking a lease in company with Colonel Frank Sherman of the 
New Sherman house. The war coming on with its great oppor- 
tunities, he soon found other fields of action, and sold the Sher- 
man house at a large advance to engage in street railroad build- 
ing and large dealings in Western lands as also Chicago real 
estate. At one time he owned the township in Iowa, where Storm 
Lake is located. He owned the two lots where stood Central 
Music Hall in Chicago, and two hundred lots where the Rock 
Island shops at Fortieth and State streets now are. He built 
street railroads in Cincinnati, Ohio, and on Staten Island, New 
York : was a large operator in cotton when the war blockade was 
broken ; was a broker in New York for several years and was 
financially ruined in the great crash of Black Friday through the 
failure of the Fisk and Gould combination to accept their con- 
tracts. At the time of his sudden death in March, 1888, he was 
actively promoting the construction of new railroad across the 
northern part of Arkansas. 

The children of Porteiis and Mary Ann were: 

1. Manter Wellington, bom April 12, 1849, in Richmond, 111.; 
died April 26, 1849. 

2. Charles Wellington, born July i, 1850, in Bunker Hill, 111. ; 
Married, October i, 1879, Sarah Angeline Lusk; born January 
II, 1855. Their children were: i. Mary Blanche, bom July 18. 
1880. 2. Grace, bom November 9, 1882; died November 14, 
1889. 3. Porteus Henry, bom March 4, 1885. 4. Cora Belle, 
bom December 6, 1888. 5. Bertha Palmer, bom November 12, 
1894. Charles W. is a farmer and doctor in Mechanicsville, Iowa. 

3. An infant son of Porteus and Mary was born and died in 
June, 1852, in Peoria, 111. 

4. Fanny Fern, born March 20, 1854, in Peoria, III. ; married 
Arthur Bell of Brooklyn, N. Y., April 10, 1877. One daughter, 
Edith Bell, was born to them March 2, 1878. 

5. Frank Roberts, born in Peoria, 111., May 29, 1856. died 
April, 1 88 1. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 59 

6. Mary Ellen, bom in Peoria, 111., October 14, 1858; lives in 
Boston. 

7. An infant son, bom February 12, i860; died the next 
month — March. 

8. Sherman, born July 6, 1862, in Chicago, 111. ; married, 
December 16, 1894, Anna Vanderbeck. 

Q. An infant son was born and died in November, 1864, in 
New York. 

10. Campbell Myrick, bom August 14, 1865, in New York, 
married Mattie Morris, June 17, 1891. They have two children, 
Arthur Campbell, bom April 11, 1892, and Emmet Livingstone, 
bom May 21, 1896. 

11. Huldah Margaret, born October 13, 1870, in Brooklyn; 
married, November 11, 1897, Howard Dexter Hammond. They 
have two children, Elizabeth, born August 3, 1898, and Barbara, 
bom November 29, 1900. They live in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

12. Lincoln Hamlin Roberts was born March 20, 1877, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y. He married Nettie Morris, April, 1897. Their 
children are: i. Jennette Adele, born March 20, 1898. 2. Mil- 
ton Lincoln, bom March 10, 1899; died July i, 1899. 3. 
Howard, bom 1900; died March, 1901. 

7. EMILY ESTHER, seventh child of Jacob, was bora in 
1825, and died in Brooks, Me., 1834, from the effects of freezing 
when on her way home from school, the distance being long and 
the weather extremely cold. 



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8. PHEBE YOUNG, eighth child was born in Brooks, Me., 
April 5, 1828. She married William Payson Miller in 1847, 
and died September, 1849. Their son, Edward Payson Miller, 
was born February 29, 1848, and lives in Stockton, California. 
He married Ida Margaret De Roche. Their children: i. Mary 
Inez, bom September 3, 1887, is dead. 2. John Bidwill, bom 
October 9, 1890. 3. Mary Cecilia, born February 9, 1892. 




MARY AND JOHN MILLER, 
Great Grandchildren of Dr. Jacob Roberts. 

The children, Mary and John Miller, are children of Edward 
Payson Miller, only child of Phebe Young Roberts, who married 
William P. Miller, who, after her death, removed to Stockton, 
Cal., where he was an extensive carriage manufacturer. He was 
a leading member of the Prohil)ition party of this state and died 
in Stockton, Cal., leaving a large estate. 



THP: ROBERTS FAMILY. 



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9. HULDAH JANE, the ninth child, was born December 
19, 1830, in Brooks, Me. She attended Hebron Academy, and 
March 25, 1852, married Dr. Joseph Henry Barrows, who was 
born April 26, 1828, in Oxford, Me., and died June 20, 1870, in 
Gardiner, Me. They lived in Brooks until 1854, North Vassal- 
boro until 1864, and Gardiner until the death of her husband. 
Dr. Barrows was a most skillful homeopathic physician and a 
man of superior ability. 

Huldah Jane, when left with three small children when her 
husband passed away very suddenly, exhibited unusual business 





DR. J. H. BARROWS, 
Husband of H. J. Barrows. 



HULDAH JANE BARROWS, 
Daughter of Jacob Roberts. 



ability for one of her sex. Without any financial backing she 
assumed the fashionable boarding-house business in the city of 
Boston, where since 1872 she has been most successful as a caterer 
to the elite of the city of Boston winters and at some seashore re- 
sort during the summer months, notably for the last dozen years 
at the historical old Devereaux Mansion near Marble Head, Mass., 
where she will likely be found during the summer of 1902. 
The children of Jane and Henry Barrows were : 
I. Elizabeth Marion, bom May 17, 1853, in Brooks, Me. ; died 
in Boston, July 31, 1880. In July, 1878, she married Joseph Up- 



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ham, of Weston, Mass., and had one son, Harold Barrows Upham, 
born in Boston, March 5, 1879. 

2. Wilfred Henry Barrows, born May 5, 1856, in North Vas- 
salboro. Me. While studying- for the medical profession he was 
taken with consumption and died December 12, 1879. 

3. Joseph William Barrows, born June 6, 1862, in Vassalboro, 
Me., went to Boston in 1874. He married, May 26, 1887, Eliza- 
beth C. Beatty of West Chester, Penn. They have two children : 

1. Wilfred Warren Barrows, born in Boston, March 25, 1891. 

2. Howard Fulton Barrows, born in Arlington, Mass., Novem- 
ber I, 1892. They reside in Newton, Mass. 




ELLEN C. ROBERTS. 
Daughter of Dr. Jacob Roberts. 

10. ELLEN CECILIA, the tenth child of Jacob and Huldah, 
was born May zy, 1833, in Brooks, Me. She married, December, 
1852, Dr. Ezra Manter, from whom she \/as divorced and resumed 
her maiden name. In early life she lyccame a member of the 
Congregational Church, of which she was a devoted member 
For several years she was matron for the Home for Boys, New- 
ton, Mass. She was matron of the Girls' Industrial School, Hollo- 
well, Me., for twelve years, from which she resigned by reason of 
faibng- health. She was stricken with paralysis December 6, 



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1898, while visiting in Boston and after an illness of twenty 
months, died August 10, 1901, in Augusta, Me. 

II. WILLIAM PINKNEY ROBERTS, the eleventh and 
youngest child of Jacob and Huldah, was born in Brooks, Me., 
January 25, 1836. The death of his mother when he was a mere 
youth left him without a regular home and his education was ac- 
quired largely through his own efforts and at various common 
schools. When eighteen years old he was given up to die as a 
hopeless case of consumption, by five as eminent doctors as could 
be found in Kennebec and Penobscot counties, Me. Reading 
that a change of climate sometimes restored such victims, he, by 





CORA B. ROBERTS, 
Wife of Wm. P. Roberts. 



WILLIAM PINKNEY ROBERTS. 
Son of Dr. Jacob Roberts. 



the help of an older brother, went West, recovered his health, 
returned East and went to the Friends School in Providence, R. 
I., one long term. The following year he taught a country school 
in Kennebec County, Me. Symptoms of consumption returned 
and he went west to Iowa, to settle down as a farmer. After six 
years he entered the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, and 
in two years passed satisfactory examinations, obtained his di- 
ploma and commenced the practice of his profession in Newaygo, 
Mich., where he adopted some original methods of treating the 



64 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

sick and made a phenomenal success. The following year, 1878, 
he was house physician in Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago. A 
few years later he began practice in Janesville. \\ is. Soon after 
the Legislature of Wisconsin had voted to discard the Bible from 
the public schools Dr. Roberts drew up a bill to substitute the flag 
for the Bible, and through A. P. Lovejoy, then a state senator 
from Rock Countw and who former!}- was a school teacher in his 
native state, Maine, introduced tlie Inll, and the first school flag 
law \\as passed without a dissenting vote. 

In 1890 the doctor was an invalid from a severe accident, so 
was incapacitated from practicing his profession. In June of 
that year he started a movement which resulted in a chartered 
association called the American Plealth Resort Association of Chi- 
cago, 111., and the doctor was appointed one of the special com- 
missioners to investigate climatic conditions in the United States, 
since which time he has devoted nearly all his energy to that not- 
able object. In 1892 he originated, and helped to organize the 
American Invalid Aid Society of Boston, through which a grand 
work has been accomplished. It has done two important things : 
First, through that work the fact has been established that more 
than 90 per cent of the victims of consumption can be cured by 
a wise use of climate ; second, through the agitation, beginning 
with Dr. Roberts' article against the Koch cure in 1891, and the 
following up of the work, and keeping up the agitation, health 
boards and legislatures in New England have taken a deep and 
abiding interest in the cause of abolishing the scourge of con- 
sumption. In the far west Dr. Roberts was dubbed the "Lunger's 
Friend." Through the East he is known to many as the friend 
to consumptives. 

No sooner had Dr. AA'. P. R. read of the startling declaration of 
Prof. Koch, viz., that tuberculosis of the bovine is not com- 
municable to the human, than he communicated with the Secretary 
of the State Board of Health of Wisconsin and with the Even- 
ing Wisconsin, Janesville Gacette and several medical journals 
offering to be one of enough provers to take up and prove as to 
whether Koch is right. The doctor claims that "ignorance is a 
disease," and is one of those who believes in proving disputed 
propositions, especially every proposition relating to the general 
health of the whole people. In politics always a radical Repub- 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 65 

lican until the split on the coinage of silver, when he voted with 
the free silver Republican branch of the old party. At the present 
time (December 27th, 1901) W. P. Roberts is actively trying- to 
have the State Board of Health of Wisconsin take up, and with 
volunteer provers make a scientific test of Koch's theory, and thus 
settle once for all this much disputed health proposition. Further. 
Dr. Roberts is already agitating to have organized a national, or 
Universal Health Association, which is to be non-sectarian and 
non-partisan and entirely outside of church or politics. He al- 
ready has much encouragement from prominent people. May the 
doctor live to realize all his good intentions for the benefit of suf- 
fering humanity ! 

Dr. Roberts married Susan A. Weeks of Vassalboro in 1859. 
He was again married April 14, 1888, to Cora B. Ferris of Janes- 
ville, Wis., where they now reside. No children. 



66 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

THE GATES FAMILY. 

Benjamin Gates and Emma Skillings Gates of Gorham, Me., 
had four sons and one dauo-hter. 

Deborah Gates married Nicholas Hamhn of Brooks, Me. 

James Gates married Betsy Whitney of Gorham, Me. 

Eben and Joseph Gates married respectively their cousins, Ann 
and Polly Skillings, daughters of Benjamin Skillings. 

John Gates, born in 1780, married Elizabeth Roberts in 1804. 

Benjamin Gates moved to Jackson, Me., in 1800, and from 
there to New York in 18 10. 

FAMILY OF ELIZABETH ROBERTS GATES. 

6. ELIZABETH ROBERTS, sixth child of Joseph and 
Esther, was born in Buckfield, Me., February 2, 1786. She mar- 
ried in 1804 John Gates and settled with him on what is called 
the Davis farm in Brooks. They removed to Jackson, Me., about 
181 2, where she died in June, 1832. 

John Gates, in 1834, married Mary Woods. 

John and Elizabeth had nine children. 

I. ISAAG GATES, born in Brooks, Oct. 27, 1806, died in 
North Monroe, Me., Aug. 29, 1883. In 1834 he married Jane 
Higgins, daughter of Isaac Higgins, of Thorndike, Me. They 
had one child, Benjamin (now dead), who married Mary Leath- 
ers. They had one daughter, Mildred, who lives in Bangor, Me. 

Isaac Gates married, Feb. 3, 1854, a second wife, Mary Ann 
Pattee fborn Bix!)y, July 8, 1821). Their three sons were: 

1. John Gates, born Dec. 9, 1855. He is an electrician in 
Minnesota University (where his half brother, William S. Pat- 
tee, is dean of the law school). 

2. Lincoln Gates, born March 5, 1861, who married Garrie 
Stewart of East Gambridge, Mass., June 14, 1888. They live in 
Andover, Mass., and have three children as follows : Helen 
Mary Gates, born May 11, 1889; Harold Stewart Gates, born 
Oct. 17. 1 8(^4, and Howard Gates, born Jan. i, 1896. 

3. Willard P.. Gates, born July 18, 1864, married Nellie Emery 
of Liberty, Me., Sept. 19. 1894. They have one child, Louis 
Goodwin Gates, born July 26, 1895. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 67 

2. DEBORAH, second child of John and Ehzabcth, died in 
infancy. 

3. JACOB, third child, bom in Brooks, Me., in 1810, was 
a farmer and died in Parkman, Me., October, 1884. He married 
Harriet Cram of Knox, Me. She was born in Thorndike, Me., 
Aug. 7, 1 816. They had three children — Emily, Nathan and 
Gardiner Cates, of whom we have no information. 

Jacob married a second wife in the person of OHve Lewis 
of Anson, Me. 

4. MERRILL CATES, born in Brooks, 181 2, married Thirya 
Edwards of Jackson, Me. Both died there. 

Their three children were Augustus, Washington Irving and 
Xanthe, all dead. 

Xanthe married Alonzo Davis. She died in Lowell, Mass., 
in 1900. She left two children, Vesta and Eugene Davis. 

Vesta Davis married a man named Roberts. They had one 
child and then separated. Eugene Davis did not marry. 

5. THOMAS SKILLINGS CATES, fifth child of John and 
Elizabeth Cates, was born in Jackson Oct. 8, 1813, and died in 
Bangor, Me., June 27, 1867. He married, March 13, 1839, Char- 
lotte Shaw of Buckfield, Me., daughter of Jotham and Sarah 
Roberts Shaw\ Thomas' early years were passed in the country, 
where he had only such educational privileges as the brief terms 
of school afforded at that period. He had, however, a bright 
mind and an intense longing for knowledge, which he absorbed 
from every source. His favorite author was Shakespeare, which 
he read almost daily, and from which he often quoted the choicest 
passages. He had a deep interest in the public schools and all 
educational affairs. After leaving home he spent two or three 
years in New York city working in a piano factory. He was 
there during the great fire so destructive to the city. Soon after 
his marriage he removed to Bangor. Me., which was thereafter 
his home. He carried on the business of contractor and builder, 
and at one period that of sash and blind making. A bakery, also 
a fruit and confectionery store, occupied his time for a while. 
In 1854 he went to California, where he remained three years 
and a half, at first in the mines, but mostly in San Francisco. 
His horizon was greatly widened by this experience, and his 



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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



letters, written on the way out and during his stay on the Pacific 
coast, were as full of interest as many of our best books of 
travel. His religious preference was Free Baptist. Some time 
in 1859 he joined the Essex Street Free Baptist Church in Ban- 
gor, where he kept his connection till death. He was a rigid 
temperance man, hating licjuor so much he would not use it 
for a medicine nor allow it a place in his home. Rurasellers re- 
spected him while they feared his sturdy enmity. He was an 
ec|ually strong anti-slavery man in the days when it cost some- 





THOMAS S. GATES. 
Son of Elizabeth Roberts Gates. 



GHARLOTTE GATES. 
Wife of Thomas Gates. 



thing to be in their ranks. The fugitive slave found shelter in 
his home and help on his way to the goal of liberty — Canada. 
He was ever the friend of the poor and oppressed and shared 
his purse, however light it might be, with any one who needed 
it. He entered the civil war as first lieutenant of Company H. 
7th Maine Infantry, Aug. 7, 1861, and resigned January 16, 1862, 
to accept a captain's commission in the 4th Louisiana Colored 
regiment of Ullman's Brigade, which was later changed to the 
9th Regiment Corps d'Afrique, and still later to the 8ist U. S. 
Regiment. During the siege of Port Hudson, La., he was at 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 69 

tacked with malarial fever, and after some time in hospital at 
Baton Rouge, returned home on furlough and was never able to 
rejoin his command. He was discharged for disability Dec. 8, 
1863. He continued to decline and died two years after the 
close of the war from the efifect of that service. He was a tire- 
less worker, a man of strong physique, sturdy independence, of 
fearless speech and iron will, a true and typical Roberts of the 
Robertses. 

Charlotte Shaw Gates, wife of Thomas, was a distant relative 
of her husband. She was the tenth child of Jotham and Sarah 
Roberts Shaw, her mother being the third child of Jotham and 
Hannah Young. She was born in Buckfield, Me., March 20, 
1 8 10, and died in Bangor Nov. 13, 1900. She went early to 
the district school and managed to become quite proficient in 
whatever was taught in that day. She had an instinct for gram- 
mar and always used good language. She could spell almost 
any word when a mere child. She was a great reader, but cared 
only for what was good. She inherited from her mother con- 
siderable skill with her pen, as shown in the charming letters 
she wrote to her friends throughout a long and busy life. Her 
stories of the pleasures and hardships of the early years of the 
century were delightful. She lived in Buckfield until her mar- 
riage with Thomas Gates, when they spent a period of time in 
Brooks and Monroe until their permanent home was made in 
Bangor. She was identified with her husband in all the generous 
and helpful things he did for others. Her house was always 
open to stranger and friend alike. She did not spare herself, 
but gave of her best every day and everywhere. She delighted 
to travel, to see the world, to meet people. One of her pleasantest 
recollections was that of the visit she paid to the Gentennial Ex- 
position in Philadelphia in 1876. She never tired of telling of 
the marvels. Her childhood's home was a dear spot, which 
she visited whenever she could. She was ever most loyal to 
old-time friends and relatives. She was a true wife and mother, 
ever unwearied in this service. She was cheerful, even gay at 
times, with a ready wit that made her what is termed "good 
company." Her hands were ever busy for others, and it was a 
great grief to her when they would no longer do her bidding. 



70 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

For the last three years of her Hfe she grew feeble constantly, 
until she quietly fell asleep one morning', without pain or con- 
sciousness, and woke in that fair world where none grow old. 

1. Thomas and Sarah Gates had four children: (i) Sarah Eliza- 
beth, wlio married Thomas Files in 1871. They reside in Bangor, 
Me. Their children are ( i ) Ralph Ernest Files, born January 
19, 1873. He is a graduate of Bates College and now principal 
of Bridgewater (Mass.) high school. He married Charlotte 
Hanson of Auburn, Me., Dec. 25, 1899, and they have one child, 
Elizabeth Hanson Files, born in Bridgewater, April 8, 1901. 
(2) Bertha Files, born in Bangor, June 18, 1882. 

2. Celestia Cates, who married Rev. S. C. Whitcomb in 1877. 
He is state agent of Free Baptist Association of ]\Iaine. They 
reside in Bangor. Their one child, Arthur Mellen, died in 1884. 

3. Miriam Shaw Cates is a school teacher in Bangor, Me. 

4. Mellen Thomas Cates is in the dry goods business in Ban- 
gor, Me. He married Annie Wood in 1872. They have one 
child, Charlotte Cates, born Jan. 28, 1873, who is a graduate of 
Maine Central Institute. She lives at home in Bansror, Me. 

6. BENJAMIN CATES, sixth child of Elizabeth, was born 
in Jackson, Me., in 1816. He was drowned in the Penobscot 
river in 1834. 

7. WILLIAM HENRY CATES was born in Jackson, Me., 
September 27, 18 19, and died April 25, 1887. He married Cor- 
delia Stinson. They liad four children. He was in the 3d Maine 
Battery. 

1. WILLIAM ALLEN CATES, born July, 1844, enlisted in 
the 2d Maine and died at Petersburg, Va.., June 15, 1864. 

2. JOHN CATES, born Mav 20. 1850, died December 14, 
1854. 

3. CHARLES H. CATES, a physician, born April 4, 1854, 
married Lizzie Varney December 17, 1879. They have no chil- 
dren and are now in California. 

4. JENNIE CATES, born July 10, i860, married Will 
Crockett December 17, 1879. They had two children, Charles and 
Roscoe Crockett. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



71 



8. CHARLES GATES (physician), born in Jackson, Me., 
in 1821, lives in Navarino, N. Y. He was in the army in a New 
York regiment, and was wounded at Antietam. He has three 
children, all unmarried, Merrill, Alta and Fannie. 

9. JOHN GATES was born in Jackson. Me., Aug^ust 22, 
1826. He is a house caq:)enter and farmer, a Republican in politics 
and an Odd Fellow. He married Harriet Ann Miller in Bang-or, 




JOHN GATES, 
Son of Elizabeth Roberts Cates. 



1852. She was born in Monroe. Me., in 18.^2, and died in 1894. 
John Cates lives in Houlton, Me. They have two children, Her- 
bert and Harry. 

1. Herbert Cates. born April. 1857, is supenntendent of Aroos- 
took Telephone Company and lives in Caribou. He married 
Nellie Bowes, and they had five children : f 1 j A daug^hter, who 
died in infancy. (2) Harriet, born in 1877. (3) Fred, born in 
1879. (4) Leta, born in 1881. (5) Eva, born m 1883. 

2. HARRY GATES, born July i, 1866, m Kangor, Me., is a 
machinist. He lives in Houlton, Me., and married Mabel Farn- 
ham. Their child. Harold, was born Aug-ust 6. 1892. 




OILMAN ROBERTS 

Son of Joseph and Esther. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. -jt, 

GILMAX ROBERTS' FA^riLY. 

7. OILMAN ROBERTS, seventh chiM of fosci)h and Esther, 
was born in Buckfiekl, Me., October 28. 1788. The next we 
hear of him he was serving in the War of t8i2. He was prob- 
ably married at this time. His wife was Ann Leathers, born in 
Buckfield, Me., April. 1791, and died in 1821^. 

Gilman was married again in 1830 to Susan Bachelder of 
Swanville, Me., who was born in 1795 and rliod March 25, 1881. 

Gilman settled on a farm adjoining his father's farm, where 
he lived till after his father's death. He spent the most of his 
life in Brooks, Me., with the exception of moving to Bangor, 
Me., in 1853. for a few years. He died Jn Brooks, Me., May 

4, 1877. 

CHILDREN OF GILMAN AND ANN. 

The children of Gilman and Ann were: (t ) Ahira, (2) Caro- 
line, (3) Florilla, (4) Sarah, (5) Marp-arer. (6) Harriet, (7) 
Edwin and (8) Ezra. 

1. AHIRA ROBERTS was born in Brooks, Me., February 
12, 1812, and died in North Dakota November 26, 1894. He 
was married March 17, 1839, to Mary Ann Durgin of Rumford, 
Me. She was born May 13, 1814, and died December 20, 1854. 

The children of Ahira and Mary Ann were: (i) Albert G. 
Roberts, bom Januar>^ 6, 1840; died September 6, 1840. 

2. Hannah Catherine Roberts, born December 6, 1841, mar- 
ried Sylvester Frederick February 17, 1865. Their children: 
(i) Albert Llewellyn Frederick, born October 14, 1869; (2) 
Hattie May Frederick, born July 25, 1870, died June 17, 1874; 
(3) Norman D. Frederick, born February 20, 1873, died March 
8, 1874; (4) Ahira Frederick, born May 5, 1877, died March 

5, 1896. 

3. Samuel Gilman Roberts, bom March 10, 1843, tnarried Mrs. 
Jennie Baldwin October 18. 1872. He was in the 17th Massa- 
chusetts Regiment. He went to Fargo, N. D., in 1871, and is 
an attorney at law. Their children are: (i) Frank Augustus, 
bom August 22, 1874. died November 19, 1876; (2) Baby, born 
December 7, 1876, died December 8, 1876; (3) Ruth, born 




AHIRA ROBERTS, 
Son of Giliiian Roberts. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 75 

December 2, 1878, married Gilbert W. Haggert of Fargo, N. D., 
November 21, 1900. They reside at 202 Roberts street, Fargo, 
N. D. 

4. Albert Roberts, fourth child of Ahira and Mary Ann Rob- 
erts, was born in Brooks, Me., July 28, 1844, moved to Liver- 
more, Me., when three years old ; his mother died when he was 
ten years of age. In 1862 he enlisted in Company C, Twentieth 
Regiment Maine Volunteers, and followed the fortunes of this 
distinguished regiment in all of its campaigns. The winter of 
'63 he and Sergeant Clark established a recruiting station at 
Lewiston, Me. In the charge at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864, he 
was severely wounded in the head by a minnie ball ; over a 
month after this was extracted at Chester hospital, Pennsylvania, 
resulting in deafness in the right ear. As soon as able he re- 
turned to his regiment and was with it to the end at Appomattox. 
He then returned to Livermore, Me., and attended the high school 
the two following winters, the Hon. H. W. Briggs, professor. 
He attended Poughkeepsie Business College in 1866, from which 
he graduated, after which, going west, he located in Greenwood, 
Hennepin county, Minn., where he- taught school winters and 
farmed summers. March 9, 1868, he was married to Miss Isa- 
bella M. McKinley, daughter of Wm. McKinley. Seven chil- 
dren have been born to them, four of whom are living. While 
in Minnesota he held various offices of honor and trust, was 
elected for two years to the state legislature from Hennepin 
county. In the year of 1878 he staged it into the Black Hills to 
rescue his brother, who had been accidentally shot while prospect- 
ing for gold, bringing him back as far as Fargo. In 1882 he 
engaged in the machinery business at Fargo, and in 1883 went 
still farther west, locating at Devil's Lake, N. D. His family 
followed in 1884, settling on a farm near the city of Devil's Lake. 
Here he still resides, engaged in extensive farming and stock 
raising. He is a member of the G. A. R. and takes great interest 
in all pertaining to the Grand Army. He fills various duties and 
is always interested in the good of the community and state, 
being a Republican for thirty-five years. He belongs to the 
Maccabee and Yeoman Lodges and is a thirty-second de;2:ree 
Scottish Rite Mason. 





ALBERT ROBERTS. 
Son of Aliira Roberts. 



ISABELLA ROBERTS, 
Wife of Albert Roberts. 





FLOYD J. ROBERTS, 
Son of .KIbcrt Roberts. 



LLOYD A. ROBERTS, 
Son of Albert Roberts. 




NOEL RUHBERG, 
Great. Great. Great Grandson of Joseph Roberts. 



78 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

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The children of Albert and Isabella are: i. Mae Bethia, 
born July i6, 1869, at Lake Sarah, Minn. She taught her first 
term of school in 1884 at the age of 15. She taught four sum- 
mers, attending school during the winters, also one year in Min- 
neapolis. She received instructions in music and painting, and 
one year at the University of North Dakota. On December 25, 
1890, she was married to George A. Ruhberg, who is engaged in 
the hardware business. They have one son, Noel Roberts Ruh- 
berg, who is one of the great-great-great grandsons of Joseph 
Roberts. 

2. Hallie, second daughter of Albert and Isabella Roberts, 
was bom in 1871 ; died in infancy. 

3. Olive, third daughter, bom in 1873. ^ beautiful girl, dying 
at the age of seven. 

4. Floyd J., and (5) Lloyd A., twin sons, born July 14, 1876. 
Floyd John Roberts, a physician, graduated from the Devil's 
Lake high school in 1895 ; graduated from the medical depart- 
ment of Hamline University, IVlinneapolis, Minn., in 1899. He 
entered the County and City Hospital at St. Paul, where he 
remained for a year. He then located at Cando, N. D. He was 
employed by the United States government to stamp out the 
smallpox on the government agency at Tutrel Mountain in the 
fall of 1900. 

Lloyd Albert Roberts graduated in 1896 from the Devil's Lake 
high school; attended Curtiss Business College in 1897; has 
taught several terms of school and is now engaged in extensive 
farming at Devil's Lake, N. D. 

6. Roy Ralph Roberts was born September 14. 1880. He 
graduated from the public schools of Devil's Lake and was a 
sophomore in the University of North Dakota at the time of his 
death, Aug. 26, 1900. 

7. Ruth Muriel, born August 12, 1883. She graduated from 
the Devil's Lake public schools in 1901 and taught school the 
following summer. She then entered the Normal at Maville, 
N. D. 

5. Llewellyn Roberts, son of Ahira and Mary, born 
December 6, 1847, died October 24, 1872. 

6. Frank Roberts, bom April 15, 1848. died in 1864 in An- 
dersonville prison. He was in the 30th Maine Regiment. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 79 

7. Ahira A. Roberts, born iVlarch 15, 1850, died September 
27, 1852. 

8. Augustus Roberts, born April 15, 1852, married December, 
1879, Florence Chambers. He is county judge at Fargo.N. D. 

Augustus and Florence had two sons : ( i ) Edwin Abbott Rob- 
erts, bom December 7, 1880; (2) Jay Roberts, born September 
18, 1883, died May 13. 1884. 

2. CAROLINE ROBERTS, second child of Oilman and Ann 
Roberts, was born about 181 3 and married, in 1839, Israel Elliott 
of Hartland, Ale. She died from fever in Oldtown, Me They 
had two children: (t) Harriet Elliott, born March, 1840. She 
married a Mr. Nichols. They are supposed to reside in Texas. 

(2) Daniel Herbert Elliott, born in 1844, resides in Portland, Me. 

3. FLORILLA DECKER ROBERTS, third child of Oilman 
and Ann, was born July 6, 1815. She married, in 1838, Emerson 
Cilly of Brooks, Me., where she still resides. They had five chil- 
dren as follows : 

1. True Page Cilly, who was born in Brooks May i, 1839. 
He served the full term of the 26th Maine Regiment as a member 
of Company A, and was severely wounded during the siege of 
Port Hudson, being left through the repulse of the army in an 
old sugar house, with but little attendance, as he was supposed 
to be mortally wounded. The bullet entered his left shoulder 
blade and was never extracted. He lived to reach home through 
the good care of his comrade, Daniel Gibbs. He married Fannie 
Gibbs May i, 1867. They had three children: (1) Grace Ellen 
Roberts, born April 5, 1868. died February 16. 1869. (2) Mary 
Frances Roberts, born December 2'^, 1870. died December 17, 
1888. (3) Percival Lynn Roberts, born November 9, 1876, 
who married, June 15, 1898, Mildred Etta Stimson. 

2. Susan Anne Cilly. born August 7. 1840, married Isaiah Cole. 
They had four children: (i) Alba L. Cole. (2) True B. Cole, 

(3) Flora E. Cole. (4) Annie C. Cole. 

3. Sarah Fayette Cilly. bom November 11, 1846, married 
Jonathan Granville Huntoon July 2, 1870. They had two chil- 
dren, viz. : 

1. Lewis Granville Huntoon, who was born in Lowell, Mass., 
September 13, 1874, who married, November 27, 1897, Miaraba 




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FLORILLA ROBExxTS CILLY. 
Daughter of Gilman Roberts. 



TRUE PAGE CILLY, 

Son of Florilla Roberts Cillv. 




FRED GILMAN HUNTOON, 
Grandson of Gilman Roberts. 



LEWIS G. HUNTOON, 
Grandson of Gilman Roberts. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 8i 

Lawtoii of Providence, R. I. He was educated in Lowell public 
schools and Burdette Business College, Boston. Was in Massa- 
chusetts State JNIilitia from 1892 until Spanish war. May 6, 1898, 
enlisted in 6th Massachusetts Regiment as first sergeant; was 
promoted to second lieutenant May 13, 1898; to battalion ad- 
jutant May 23, 1898; to commissary July i, 1898, and had charge 
of all supplies for United States army at Utuado, Porto Rico. 
September 28 he was promoted to first lieutenant. He was in 
action with his regiment at Guanica, Porto Rico, July 26, 1898, 
and was mustered out with his regiment January 11, 1899. He 
holds his rank, January i, 1902, on the colonel's staff, Massachu- 
setts V. M. 

2. Fred Oilman Huntoon, born in Lowell. Mass., March 11, 
1876; married, May 5, 1898, Mabel Louisa Foss of Lowell. He 
was educated in the public schools of Lowell, enlisted in the 6th 
Ad^assachusetts Infantry for the Spanish war. Was promoted to 
corporal and acting commissary sergeant. Was in action at 
Guanica, Porto Rico, and mustered out with his regiment January 
II, 1899. He is now a sergeant of Company G, 6th Massachu- 
setts V. M. 

4. Edwin Charles Cilly, born August 15, 1856. He married 
Laura Brainard in 1879, and died that same year, 1879. 

5. Afiie Marie Cilly, born April 17, 1858; married, December 
13, 1876, George H. Godding, who died in 1898. They had 
five children: (i) Edwin Melvin Godding, born December 28, 
1877; (~) Florilla Roberts Godding, born September 26, 1879, 
married August 10, 1898, Alpha Joseph Bolter; (3) Lewis Gil- 
man Augustus Godding, born July 9, 1882 ; (4) Leroy Emerson 
Godding, born June 29, 1884; Edna Mary Godding, born August 
I, 1892. 

4. SARAH ROBERTS, daughter of Gilman and Ann, born 
in 1 819, married A/Toses Page of Boston, Mass. She died of 
cholera in Charlestown, Mass. Their two children, John and 
George Page, both died at the age, respectively, of two and five 
years. 

5. MARGARET ROBERTS, fifth child, was born in Brooks 
in 1821. She died in Somerville, Mass., June 3, 1878. She was 
by profession a nurse and never married. 



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THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



6. HARRIET ROBERTS, sixth child of Gihiian, born July 
4, 1823, married, October 13, 1844, George Washington Elliot of 
Hartland, Me. She resides in Rockford, Minn. 

They have two children: (i) Helen M. Elliot, born in Knox, 
Me., March 9, 1848; married, March 9, 1868, John Cunningham. 
They reside in Rockford, Minn., and have eight children as fol- 
lows : (i) George R. Cunningham, born November 27, 1868. 
(2) Edwin Orlando, born October 11, 1870; married, May, 1895, 
Jessie Sabine. They have one child, Penelope M. (3) 




HARRIET ELLIOTT, 
Daughter of Gilman Roberts-. 

John Wallace, born September 9, 1874. (4) Henry P., born 
February 11, 1878. In October, 1897, Henry P. married Hattie 
Thompson. They had one child, AFertic. born February, 1898. 
(5) Harriet A., bora August 11, 1882. (6) Viola, born June 23, 
1884. died September z^,. 1884. (7) Catherine E., born March 
22, 1886. (8) Rolfe E.. born November 30. 1889. 

2. George N. Elliott, born in Oldtown, Me., February 22, 
1851; married, November 15, 1871, Mary E. Alger, who was 
born in Minnesota November 15, 1854. They had nine children: 
(i) De Forest Elliott, born January 9. 1873. (2) Minnie, born 
March 13, 1874. ('3) Horace, born January 22, 1877. (4) 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 83 

Lovina, l:)orn Octolier 30, 1878. (5) Alfred, born September 26, 
1880. (6) Elden, born August 20, 1882. (7) Roy, born May 
1, 1885. (8) Nina, born June 28, 1888. (9) Mabel, born May 
19, 1894. Tbey reside at Ridge Post, Tenn. 

7. EDWIN ROBERTS, seventh child of Oilman, was born 
in 1825. He was drowned when but a young man. 

8. EZRA ROBERTS, eighth child of Oilman, was born in 
1827. He married Lydia Wentworth of Knox, Me. He was in 
the army in Civil War. He lived in Brooks and died there in 
August, 1900. 

Freeman Otis Roberts, the only child of Ezra, was born Sep- 
tember II, 1856. He married Mary Olivia Larrabee, who was 
born April 6, 1856. They had seven children: (i) Charles Ar- 
thur Roberts, born January 13, 1881. (2) William Winworth'' 
Roberts, born October 27, 1884. (3) Hattie May Roberts, born 
July 31, 1886. (4) Freeman Edwin Roberts, born June 13, 1888. 
(5) Frank Oilman Roberts, born September 2, 1890. (6) Chester 
Allen Roberts, born January 28, 1895. (7) Carrie Gertrude Rob- 
erts, born May 17, 1896. 

CHILDREN OF OILMAN AND SUSAN. 

The children of Oilman and Susan were Hannah, Miriam, Al- 
mira and Clara. 

1. HANNAH ROBERTS was born July 19, 183 1 ; married, 
October 10, 185 1, Samuel Reynolds, who died October 23, 1885. 
A son. Frank Oilman Reynolds, born September 24, 1852, resides 
in Somerville, ]\Iass. 

2. MIRIAM ROBERTS was born June 19, 1833; married, 
in 1854, Renselaer Huxford, who died September 28, 1880. She 
married again, May 19, 1883, John J. Jacques of Lowell, Mass., 
who died in T900. Miriam and Renselaer had six children, as fol- 
lows : 

(i) Ella R., born October 2^, 1855; married, June 16, 1888, 
Charles H. Smith of Brockton, Mass. (2) Nellie R., born No- 
vember 20, 1856; married, April 10, 1889, Nelson C. Norris of 
Brockton, Mass. Two infants died unnamed. (5) Carrie L. 
Roberts, born May 29, 1866. (6) Agnes E. Roberts, born No- 
vember 4, 1868; married, October 7, 1886. Oeorge Oulliland of 
Lowell, Mass. She died January 3, i* 



84 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

3. AL^IIRA ROBERTS was born July 19, 1835. She mar- 
ried, first, William White, of Frankfort, Me. Her second hus- 
band was John Ballon, of Boston. She died in Brooks, Me., July 

2, 1865. 

Her daughter, Mabel White, born in 1856. married, ^larch 13, 

1878, Horace Jones, of Brooks. He is a machinist. They had 
two children: (i) Clara S. Jones, born in Brooks, January 9, 

1879, who died, December 10, 1888, in Somerville, Mass. (2) 
Helen A. Jones, born in Brockton, Mass., October 17, 1883. They 
reside in Beverly, INIass. 

4. CLARA ROBERTS, born April 12, 1840; married David 
Lowry, of Cambridge, ^lass. She died ^lay 3, 1874, in Brooks, 
Me. 

ENOCH ROBERTS AND FAMILY. 

8. ENOCH ROBERTS, eighth child of Joseph and Esther, 
w^as born March 27, 1791, and died in Brooks, Me., July 25, 1858. 
He married Eleanor Leathers. She was born in Buckfield, Me., 
February, 1793, and died in Brooks, November 30, 1848. They 
had eleven children, as follows : 

1. ORENA ROBERTS, the first child of Enoch, died when 
about twenty years of age. 

2. TABIt'hA ROBERTS, born September 8, 181 5. in San- 
gerville, Ale.; married in Brooks, Me., January i. 1839, George 
Gardner. She died January 2, 1896, in Tvlerrill. Aroostook Co., 
Me., where she had lived since 1862. They had six children : 

1. Enoch R. Gardner, born in Brooks, March 20, 1840. He 
married Emma Sanderson of Moro, Me., August 28. 1867. They 
had two daughters and one son, none of whom are living. 

Emma Sanderson Gardner died December 29, 1873. 

Enoch married for his second wife Hattie A. Lilly of Dyer 
Brook, Me., January i, 1876. Four children were born to them. 
I. Harry M. Gardner, l)i)rn October 25, 1876. 2. Nellie A. 
Gardner, born December 22, 1878. 3. John W. Gardner, born 
July 3, t88t. 4. Inez S. Gardner, born December 22, 1884. 

Enoch R. Gardner is a lumber merchant at Smyrna INIills, Me. 

2. John H. Gardner was born in Brooks, as were also his sis- 
ters, Ellen, Hannah. Lydia and brother Ernest. John is with 
his brother Enoch in the lumber business. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 85 

3. JACOB ROBERTS, third child of Enoch and Eleanor 
Roberts, was born in Brooks, March 4, 18 18. He married Cynthia 
Badg-er. She was born November 17, 1824, and died April 21, 
1900. Jacob Roberts died in Brooks, April 14, 1889. They had 
nine children : 

1. Abbie F. Roberts, born in Brooks, August 30, 1846; died 
June 12, 1863. 

2. Mary M. Roberts, born in Brooks November 10, 1847; died 
March i, 1892. She married Manly Ellis, of Monroe, Me., July 
4, 1865. They had five children: i. Mittle M. Ellis, born in 
Monroe, Me., December 24, 1867; married Wendall S. Reynolds, 
of Brooks, Me., September 23, 1890. They had one child, Alice 
Mary Reynolds, born June 24. 1896. 2. Ralph D. Ellis, born 
September 2j, 1870: married Lizzie Plummer of Monroe, Me., 
April 20, 1891. They had one child, Agnes M. Ellis, born in 
Brooks, Me., May 15, 1892. 3. Wallace A. Ellis. 4. WilHs M. 
Ellis, twins, were born in Monroe, Me., May 15. 1876. Willis M. 
died in Monroe, January 11, 1894. 5. Raymond Ellis, born in 
Monroe July 4. 1889. 

3. Ann C. was the third child of Jacob Roberts, born May 21, 
1849; died March 15, 1859. 

4. Hattie C. was the fourth child of Jacob, born September 2, 
1850; married, October 12, 1873, Albert Jenkins, of Monroe, Me., 
who died January 24, 1894. They had six children: i. Grace 
M., born July 10, 1875, in Monroe, Me.; married, August 15, 
1900, Walter P. Dickey, of Brooks. 2. Nellie B., born February 
28, 1878, in Monroe, Me.; died x^ugust 2^, 1895, in Brooks, Me. 
3. Roy A., born June 24, 1882, in Mars Hill (Aroostook County), 
Me. ; died June 24, 1890, in Monroe, Me. 4. Carl C, born Feb- 
ruary 10, 1886, in Monroe, Me. 5. Mabel A., born June 25, 1890, 
m Monroe, Me.; died there October 21, 1891. 6. Albert E., 
born September 18, 1894, in Brooks, Me. 

5. Henry L. Roberts was born July 19, 1852. 

6. William J. Roberts was born January 28, 1856. 

Henry L. and William J. went west and their location is un- 
known to the publisher. 

7. Herbert F. Roberts was born July 18, 1858. He married, 
March 21. 1881, Hattie Briggs of Monroe, IMe. He died ^[arch 



86 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

28, 1900. They had three children, as follows : Delia L. Roberts, 
born May 7, 1882; Harry W. Roberts, born June 2, 1884; Hovey 
L. Roberts, born April 8, 1893. 

8. Melvin W. Roberts, born February 23, 1862 ; married Annie 
Hall (daughter of Enoch Hall, Brooks), April 26, 1884. They 
had two children, Celia Maud Roberts, born in Brooks, May 30, 
1886, and Earle Melvin Roberts, born in Monroe, Me., April 2y, 

1893. 

9. George At wood Roberts, born October 23, 1865 ; married 
Lilla V. Austin of Lemoine, Me., June 20, 1889, in Union, Me. 
Their children were : Heleaa Belle Roberts, born April 5, 1890, 
in Union, Me.; Hazel Dell Roberts, born INIay 12, 1892, in Port- 
land, Me. ; Jessie Maria Roberts, born January 31, 1899, in Union, 
Me. 

They reside in North Cambridge, Mass. 

4. MARY ROBERTS, fourth child of Enoch and Eleanor, 
born in Brooks, Me., May 12, 1820; married, in 1843, Samuel 
Hall, of Unity, Me. He was a widower with three children. He 
died in 1900. She died January 27, 1865, in Castle Hill, Aroos- 
took County, Me. 

They had eight children as follows: i. Martha ^Matilda Hall, 
born in Unity, Me., November 2(), 1845. She married in Bridge- 
water, Me., April 21, 1866, Jacob B. Rideout, of New Brunswick, 
a Presbyterian clergyman. They are both authors of some repute 
and at present reside in Whittier, California. They have seven 
children: i. Maggie Melvena Rideout, born in Castle Hill, Me., 
February 17, 1867, died June 2'j , 1867. 2. Winslow Lester 
Rideout, born in Castle Hill, Me., April 8, 1868; married, October 
22, 1895, in Lakeport, California, Marilda Williams. They had 
one child, Sara Matilda Rideout, born in Lakeport, Cal., Nov. 30, 
1897. 3. Edna Zulienne Rideout, born in Castle Hill, Me.. March 
II, 1870; married Edwin T. Stoddard of Burlington, Vt., June 
2, 1892, at Marshfield, Oregon. They have one child, Chauncey 
Albert Stoddard, born, October 11, 1893, in Marshfield. 4. 
Alfred Percy and (5) Albert Raymond Rideout w^ere born in 
Chicaskia, Kansas, October 5, 1872. Percy died in Caldwell, Kan- 
sas, August 12, 1876. 6. Laura Zelanie Rideout, born in Cald- 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



87 



well, Kan., September 29. 1874; died September 2.y, 1876. 7. 
Sylvester Hanson Rideout, born in Pneblo, Colorado, March 22, 
1880; is now in Arizona. 

2. John Hall, born in 1847, died at age of two years. 

3. Hannah Hall, born in 1849, ^^'^^1 at the age of two years. 

4. Asa R. Hall, born September 23, 1851 ; now lives at Dyer 
Brook, Aroostook Co., Me. 

5. Charles Greenwood Hall, born in Unity, ]vle., December 7, 
1852 ; married Georgia A. Hersey of Aroostook County, Me. She 
died in 1890. He married again, in 1892, Isabella Rowan, of 
Coquille City, Ore., where they now reside. They have three 




CHARLES GREENWOOD HALL, 

Grandson of Enoch Roberts. 



children, i. Bertha G. Hall, born September 16, 1893. 2. Fred- 
die G. Hall, born April 23, 1898. 3. Tracey J. Hall, born Octo- 
ber 19, 1899. 

6. Mary Anna Hall, born in Unity, Me., October 23, 1854; 
now lives in Castle Hill, Aroostook County, Me. She married 
George McLellan, February, 1873, who died January 16, 1900. 
They had nine children, viz. : i. James A. McLellan, born Octo- 
ber 28, 1873. He is a farmer. 2. Mary L., born August 10, 
1875. She is a teacher in the public schools. 3. Jerusha A,, 
born July 11, 1877. 4. Martha A., born Al^rch 4, 1879. 5. 



88 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

Lester D'., born November 22, 1881. He died April 19, 1901. 6. 
Nora M., born December 2, 1884. 7. Andrew J., born May 25, 
1886. 8. Percy G., born Marcb 27, i88«. 9. Harold, born 
July 15, 1890. 

7. Jesse \V. Hall, of Coquille City, Ore., born November, 1856, 
in Unity, Me. Married, November 27, 1879, Annie M. Grant, in 
Dyer Brook, Me. Tbey had the following seven children: i. 
Eva Hall, born in Dyer Brook, Me., Octobei 10, 1880. 2. Mary, 
born in Dyer Brook, Me., November i, 1882. She married, 
August 29, 1900, Walter M. Laird, of Sitkum, Ore. 3. Winnie, 
born in Dyer Brook, Me., May 29, 1885. 4. Raymond J., born 
in Steamburg-, N. Y., August 6. 1887. 5. Mattie J., born in Wil- 
low Dale, Ore., October 11, 1890. 6. Harry G., born in Willow 
Dale, Ore., September 22, 1892. 7. Emma, born in Myrtle Point, 
Ore., October 4, 1895. 

8. Melvin A. Hall, born in Brooks, Me., November, i860; 
has lived in Dyer Brook, Aroostook County, Me., since 1861. 

5. HANNAH ROBERTS, fifth child of Enoch and Eleanor, 
little is known about. She went west, married James Wiggin, 
of Wisconsin, had three children, all of wliom died young. She 
moved to Kansas. Mr. Wiggin died there, and she married again, 
Mr. Churchill, and had one daughter, named Nellie. 

6. GILMAN ROBERTS, sixth child of Enoch and Eleanor, 
married, first, Aliigail Wilson, of Waldo, i\le., and, second, Lovisa 
Turner. Lovisa had one child, Alfreda L. born April 24, 1862, 
in Brooks, Me. She died in Lowell, ]\Iass., January 11, 1883. 
Gilman died in Brooks, Me., Noveml)er 28, 1863. 

7. ALFRED ROBERTS, seventh child of Enoch and Eleanor, 
married Emily Dean. They had two children, Edwin and Alice. 
Alfred was a soldier and died in an ami}- hospital in 1863. 

8. ANNA ROBERTS, eighth child of Enoch and Eleanor, 
was born in 1830. She married Albert F. Watson. They had 
three children, Mora, Albert and Emma. He lives in Portland, 
Me. 

9. THOMAS JEFFERSON ROBERTS, born in 1832, died 
in 1834. 

10. THOMAS JEFFERSON ROBERTS, second, born in 
1835; died in 1875, in Aroostook, Me. He was unmarried. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 89 

II. ELEANOR ROBERTS, born m 1838; married Joseph 
Files. They hve in Windham, Me. Her three children are Al- 
bert, Leonard and Anna R. Files. 

ENOCH ROBERTS, the eighth child of Joseph and E.sther, 
married for his second wife, Eliza Aborn of Knox, Me. She is 
still living- there at the advanced age of 94 years, at the home of 
the late James Aborn, who died, in Knox, Me., late in December, 
1901. 

ESTHER ROBERTS HA^HLTOX. 

10. ESTHER ROBERTS, the tenth child of Joseph and 
Esther, born March 20, 1795, moved to the town of Brooks, Me., 
when eight years old. She had dark brown hair, dark gray eyes, 
and a sprightly disposition, charming to all who knew her. She 
lived over eighty years. She was an intensely religious woman, 
a Free Will Baptist in belief. She had a wonderful memory, and 
retained it to a good old age. She is held in deepest reverence 
by her family. 

When a young girl she met Daniel Hamilton in Belfast, Me., 
who straightway fell in love with her, but she did not want him. 
His perseverance and persistence carried the day, and, on March 
4, 1813, they were married. They settled in Swanville, Me., 
and had a long happy life together. 

Daniel Hamilton came from Berwick, Me., and his grandfather 
was a son of the Duke of Hamilton, allied to the house of Stuarts. 
This grandfather and two of his brothers were fighting against 
Cromwell and were banished by him and sent over to America in 
irons on the good ship Jolm and Sarah, from London, Eng. They 
settled in New Hampshire, and, like so many others, proceeded to 
work their way through the world. Daniel was in the War of 
18 1 2. He was taken prisoner and paroled. He came down 
through Maine to Belfast and selected a farm in Swanville, Me. 
He made a business of getting out timber for shipbuilding. He was 
a large, noble-looking man, with a dignified way that made his 
family stand a little in awe of him. He was a Free Baptist also. 
His death occurred first and his wife lived with her youngest 
daughter, until her own death in 1877. 





DANIEL HAMILTON. 

Who Married Esther Roberts. 



ESTHER ROBERTS HAMILTON. 
Daughter of Joseph and Esther. 





DANIEL HAMILTON, 
.\ Later Picture. 



HANNAH KIMBALL. 
Daughter of Esther Roberts Hamilton. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 91 

Esther had thirteen children, to whom she was a most devoted 
mother, scarcely ever leaving home, doing spinning, weaving, 
making their clothes and the numerous things required to live in 
those days. 

The children were: Hannah, Mary, Joseph, Solomon, Daniel, 
Isaac, Jacob, David, George, Nancy, Charles and two unnamed 
infants. 

I. HANNAH W. HAMILTON, born in Swanville, Me., 
August 26, 1814; married Abram Kimball of Monmouth, Me., 
December 15, 1833. She lived on a farm near Swanville, Me., all 
her sixty-three years' married life, and died March 4, 1896. She 
had five children : 

1. Eliza A. Kimball, born August, 1837; married Nahum S. 
Piper, of Waldo, Me.. June 11, 1854. They lived in Swanville, 
Me., till 1867, since then in Belfast, Me. Mr. Piper furnishes 
timber for shipbuilding. He was in the Twenty-sixth Maine In- 
fantry in the Civil War. Eliza is noted in Maine for her temper- 
nnce work. She has held thirteen silver and four gold medal con- 
tests, with over three hundred temperance recitations. She has 
distributed thousands of pages of literature and has induced sixty 
to sign the pledge card to send to the World's Fair. She is presi- 
dent of an active society, and laid the foundation of a W. C. T. U. 
in Belfast, Me. It is a noble work and nobly done. 

She has two children, viz. : i. Edna L. Piper, born September 
13. 1855. 2. Etta E. Piper, born July 2, 1857. Edna L. grad- 
uated from Castine Normal School in 1874 and taught in the 
city school in Belfast, Me., for two years. She died January 21, 
1877. Etta E. graduated from Castine Normal School in 1878, 
and taught school in Belfast, Me. She married Fred Savery of 
Searsport. Me., October 25. 1879. The little girl with her in the 
picture is an adopted child. 

2. Mary E. Kimball, born in Swanville. Me., September 19, 
1839, married, April 20, 1861, Caleb E. Pendleton of Islesboro, 
Me. Their four children are: Nahum E.. born in Swanville, 
Me., November 12, 1862. He is a sea captain. He married Ethel 
Coombs of Bangor. Me., June 26, 1885. They have one child, 
Theora E., born in 1887 in Islesboro, Me. 2. Edith H. Pendle- 
ton, born in Islesboro, Me., December 25, 1865 ; married Will 
Garland of Belfast, Me. Thev ha^p one child. Earl Garland, born 




NAHUM S. PIPER, 
Husband of Eliza. 




ELIZA A. PIPER. 
Granddaughter of Esther Roberts 
Plamilton. 




EDNA L. PIPER, 
Daughter of Nahum Piper. 




E'i'TA E. PIPER, 
Daughter of Nahum Piper, and 
Adopted Child. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 93 

December 28, 1888. 3. Hattie M. Pendleton, born in Islesboro, 
Me., February 9, 1878. 4. Annie L. Pendleton, born in Islesboro, 
Me., July 29, 1884. 

3. Lovina A. Kiml)all, born March 24, 1841 ; married, Novem- 
ber 12, 1865, Aug-ustus Phillirick of W'aldo, Me., who was in the 
army. 

4. Daniel J. Kimball, born October 20, 1842, was in the Nine- 
teenth Maine Infantry. He married, September 15, 1867, Hattie 
A. Herrick of Islesboro, Me. Their two children are: i. John 
Walter, born October 21, 1868. 2. Lizzie Etta, born ]\Iay 25, 
1877. Lizzie Kimball married Alexis Gross of Belfast, Me., 
Aug-ust 24, 1896. They have a son, Morris Gross, born April, 
1898. ^Irs. Hattie Kimball died July 16, 1878, and Daniel mar- 
ried Ada H. Philbrick of Belfast, Me., July 4, 1881. They have 
the following' five children: t. Hattie Ada, born November 13, 
1882. 2. Florence Melinda, born August 25, 1885. 3. Wini- 
fred Hannah, born November 5, 1887. 4. Ivan Aug-ustus, born 
October 19, 1889. 5. Ruth Edna Kimball, born December 15, 
1894. 

5. Elbridge G. Kimball, born April 6, 1884, died Septr^mber 
26, 1846. 

2. MARY E. HAMILTON, second child of Esther, was born 
March 18, 1816. She married Washington Bowen, who was born 
Aug-ust 28, 1819, and died in Aug-ust, 1863. Mary died Ju1;>- 16, 
1890. Their children numbered six, as follows: 

1. Esther C. Bowen, born February 9, 1847. She married 
Amosa Jackson of Lincolnville. Me., who was born November 
28, 1827, and died June 2, 1895. She resides at Silver Lake, Mass. 

Their children, ei.ght in all, were born in Belmont, Me. i. 
Selina Bell Jackson, born April 15, 1872, died in Kingston, Mass. 4 
April 21. 1898. She married John Clark of Northport, Me., in 
1889. They had four children, i. Nellie May Clark, born 
March, 1891, in Belmont, Me. 2. Etta Bell Clark, born Septem- 
ber 17. 1892. 3. Alvin John Clark, born September 18, 1893. 

4. Henry Clark, born April 6, 1896, died July 7. 1896. 

2. Mary E. Jackson, born September 28, 1873, married Henry 

5. Rig.gs of Hermon, Me. Their children are : i. Noyes Llenry 
Riggs, born September 26, 1892. 2. Esther Geneva Riggs, born 
February 5. 1894. They live in Whitman, Mass. 



94 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

3. Amasa Danie Jackson, born November 16, 1875, died Veh- 
ruary 7, 1876. 

4. Eugene Augustus Jackson, born December 29, 1876, died 
February 18, 1888. 

5. Sarah Emma Jackson, born April 30, 1878; married, in 
1895, Milford Dunn. They had one chikl, Clarence. They reside 
in Whitman, ]\Iass. 

6. Eva Rilla Jackson, born Alay 16, 1881, died November 15, 
1881. 

7. Blanche Alay Jackson, born September 21, 1883. 

8. Abbie Louise Jackson, born May 20, 1885. 

2. Eslie A. Bowen, second child of Mary E. Hamilton Bowen, 
born July 18, 1848; married Esther Thomas December 2, 1868. 
He was in the Civil War near its close. They now reside in Bel- 
fast. ]\le., where Eslie is in the leather business. Their children 
numbered ten, as follows : 

1. Grace E. Bowen, born April 9, 1871 ; married, Nov. 9, 1893, 
James Y. Foss. They had one child, Frederick E. F'oss, born 
July 14, 1896. 

2. Mary B. Bowen, born May 30, 1873 ; married Leroy F. 
Morrill in 1894. 

3. Ida M. Bowen, born T^Iarch 28, 1875 ; married Herbert F. 
Clark April 17, 1897. 

4. Sehvin E. Bowen, born June 15, 1877; married Pearl H. 
Nash August 29, 1899. 

5. Edith E. Bowen, born Tune 11, 1879; ^Hed November 30, 
1881. 

6. Emma F. Bowen, born January 11, 1881 ; died February 4, 
1881. 

7. Veda M. Bowen, born February 17, 1883. 

8. Walter R. Bowen, born April, 1885. 

9. Clara A. Bowen, born July 19. 1887. 

10. Helen G. Bowen, born February 22, 1890. 

3. Emma M. (Hamilton) Bowen, born June 7, 1850; married 
Hanson Young, who died August 31, 1874. (Hanson Young was 
son of Joseph Young and grandson of Hannah Roberts Young, 
oldest chikl of Joseph and Esther Hamilton Roberts. His mother 
was Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of Eli Roberts of Waldo, Me., 
of the Tabitha Roberts branch of the family.) Emma M. (Hamil- 
ton) Bowen Young resides in Belfast, Me. The children of Han- 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 95 

son and Emma were: i. Willie H. Young, born July 8, 1870, 
died August 14, 1879, of diphtheria. 2. Talford E. Young, 
born September 27, 1871, died December 20, 1888, of pneumonia, 
when in a business college at Augusta, Me. 3. Roy E. Young, 
born May 29, 1873; married Grace Page in 1895. She died 
December 6, 1896, aged 23 years, leaving a daughter, Margaret 
Page, born January 25, 1896. Roy E. Young married, June, 
1898, Antilca Knowlton of Brooks, Me. Raymond Orren Young 
was born to them January 19, 1901. They reside in Belfast, Me., 
but Roy Young at this writing (January, 1902) is in South 
America, where he went as engineer from Boston September 2, 
1901. 4. ]vlillard J. Young, born September 24, 1874, died 
August 20, 1879, of diphtheria. 

4. Sarah J. (Hamilton) Bowen, born February i, 1854, mar- 
ried George D. Marden of Waldo, Me. He is in the lumber busi- 
ness in West Winterport, Me. Their son, Herbert R. Marden, 
born April 20, 1875, died February 15, 1889. 

5. Jacob W. (Hamilton) Bowen, born April z'j, 1856; mar- 
ried, in March, 1898, Merta E. Annis of Preston, Minn., who 
was born in 1880. Their children were: i. Mary Ella Bowen, 
born June i, 1899. 2. Alice Tvlay Bowen, born October 15, 1900. 
Jacob is a farmer and they now reside at Brant Rock, Mass. 

6. Charles R. (Hamilton) Bowen, born July 13, 1858, died 
June 22, i860. 

3. JOSEPH ROBERTS HAMILTON, born June 19, 1818, 
in Swanville, Me.; married Emmeline Young of Jackson, Me. 
They had four children : 

I. Isabel died when young. 2. Alvin died when about four 
years of age. 3. Emeline and (4) Amos. Emeline Hamilton 
married Joseph Harvey and had one child, Nellie. She died in 
1882. Nellie Harvey, born 1878, married Arthur Howard in 1896 
and has one son, Randall E. Howard, born in 1897 in Swanville, 
Me. Amos Hamilton married Delia George of Stockton, Me. 
They had a son, Charles, who lives in Prospect, Me. 

Emmeline Young Hamilton died April 8, 1854, and Joseph 
Roberts Hamilton married again, in 1856, Esther Stearns, daugh- 
ter of Silas and Almira Stearns, of South Jackson, Me. To them 
were born ten children, seven of whom are living. The children 
were : 




JOSEPH ROBERTS HAMILTON, 
Son of Daniel Hamilton and Esther Roberts. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 97 

1. Willis E. Hamilton, a florist in Belfast, Me., born March 
22, 1857, and married Mary E. Hoag- January 30, 1882. Their 
children are: Clara M., born November 16, 1883, and Everett 
L., born October 8, 1893. 

2. Cassius E. and (3) Adelbert S., farmers. 4. Silas died 
when three years old. 

5. Herbert Francis Hamilton, bom July 14, 1870; married, 
November 24, 1897, Lucy Etta Lombard. To them were born: 
Francis Burr Hamilton, July 11, 1899, ^^^^1 Bernice Celeste Ham- 
ilton, May 19, 1 90 1. 

6. Nettie Hamilton, married W. A. Claridge of Haverhill, 
Mass., in 1900. To them was born Margaret Esther Claridge, 
January, 1901. 

7. Alice Hamilton, married Marshall Rand of Monroe, Me. 
They had one son, Earl Rand, born in 1898. 

8. David Lincoln Hamilton, born in 1877; married, June 28, 
1899, Celeste Cooper of Boston. She was a daughter of Jennie 
Stearns Cooper. They live in Swanville, Me. 

9 and 10. Two infants died unnamed. 

4. SOLOMON HAMILTON, Esther's fourth child, born 
January i, 1821, died May 5, 1896. in Ormond, Fla. He married 
Lydia A. Lenfest of Prospect, Me., in 1846, who was born No- 
vember I, 1826. She died in Ormond, Fla., December 24, 1891. 
They were both of Scotch descent. 

Solomon and Lydia had six children : i. Henry C. Hamilton, 
born July 11, 1846, in Prospect, married, September 13, 1878, 
Abbie L. Marshall. They live in Mansfield, Mass., and have a 
daughter, Edith M. Hamilton, born January 23, 1880. 

2. Wilmot Hamilton, bom June 6, 1849; married, in 1881, 
Jennie Small, who died in 1885. He married again Estelle Grant. 
They live in West Winterport, Me. 

3. Ellen M. Hamilton, born July 28, i860, in Bradley, Me. 
Tn 1882 she was married to Carl F. Martensen in Dayton, Fla. 
She has one son, Carl Adelbert, born August 15, 1889. Carl 
Martensen, Sr., died February 15, 1896, and Ellen married again, 
February 20, 1898, Benjamin R. Stockbridge of Alabama. This 
marriage proved unfortunate and she procured a divorce in 1900, 
and is now Ellen Martensen. She lives with her son in Ormond, 
Fla. 



98 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

4. George Lester Hamilton was born in ^lilford, Me., Novem- 
ber 26, 1 86 1. He married Florence Ball November 21, 1888. 
They have one child, born June 19, 1898. 

5. Jennie Hamilton, born September 17, 1866, in Levant, Me.; 
married Charles Ball in 1887 in Ormond, Fla. She died Novem- 
ber, 1894. There were three children as follows: Florence Ball, 
born in Ormond, Fla., xA.ugust 15, 1888; Clarence Ball, born in 
1890; and a baby, born and died in 1891, in Mansfield, Mass. 

6. Adelbert Howard Hamilton was born in Herman, Me., Feb. 
I, 1868, and died December 10, 1886, in Ormond, Fla. 

5. DANIEL HAMILTON, JR., died when about twelve 
years of age. 

6 and 7. ISAAC AND JACOB HA^IILTON, twins, both 
died when about seven years old, from scarlet fever. 

8. DAVID HAMILTON died when about three years of age. 
He was butted to death by a ram. 

9 and 10. Two infants died unnamed. 

11. GEORGE WASHINGTON HAMILTON, born ; 

married Martha Bo wen, of Searsport, Me. They had five 
children as follows: Charlotte (now^ dead), Abbie (now dead), 
Solomon, Helen, Roscoe (now dead). Helen married Mr. Mills 
and lives in Haverhill, Mass. George W. Hamilton enlisted in 
Fourth Maine A^olunteers, Company I, and died at Camp Knox, 
Alexandria, \'a., February 25, 1862, of inflammation of the brain. 
His comrades of the company sent his body home to his friends, 
with this testimonial : "His comrades have lost an agreeable com- 
panion and his country a brave defender. He was a true soldier, 
prompt and faithful in every duty, cool in action and courageous 
in the hour of danger. Signed, F. H. Grey, Lieutenant Company 
I, Fourth Maine Regiment." 

12. NANCY HAMILTON, born August 9, 1840; married 
Cyrus Robbins. She died in Minnesota March 4, 1898. Their 
two children were: Martha, who lives in Montana, and Manly. 

Cyrus Robbins died and Nancy was married again. This time 
to Hiram Harvey. They had four children, as follows: i. 
Hiram. 2. Hannah, wlio married Mr. Mills and died in 1896, in 
Massachusetts. 3. Willis lives in Belfast. Me. 4. Viola, who 
died voung. Hiram Harvev died in the armv. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



95 



13. CHARLES ROBERTS HAMILTON was born in 
Svvanville, Me., September 6, 1841. In August, 1862, he enlisted 
in the Nineteenth ]\Iaine Regiment, Company D. He was in all 
the battles of his regiment, including Gettysburg, where he was 
wounded in Pickett's charge the third day. He lay on the field 
all day and was picked up nearly dying and sent to hospital. He 
was in such a serious condition that his sister went to Gettysburg 
to take his dead l)()(ly home; but, after lingering for weeks, he 





CHARLES HAMILTON, 
Son of Esther Roberts Hamilton. 



MARGARET HAMILTON. 

Wife of Charles Hamihon. 



gradually recovered enough to be taken home alive, though he 
never fully recovered from the effects of his severe wounds. In 
1880 he went to Europe in search of health and pleasure; This 
was a great benefit to him. He had a fine education and culti- 
vated literary tastes. 

When in the hospital he met Margaret Mahoney, an army 
nurse, who made such an impression on him that he afterward 
made her his wife. She was an only child and was born in 
Rochester, N. Y., in 1840. When her mother died, in 1857, her 
heart led her to seek the training of the Sisters of Charity. So, 
when the war came, she was ready to ofl:"er her services, which 



100 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

were so much needed. Duriiit;- the war she was in the Philadel- 
phia IMiUtary Hospital, which was built to accommodate 5,000 
patients, and it was constantly filled. After the battle of Gettys- 
burg tents had to be erected to accommodate 2,000 more. When 
the war was over she married her soldier, and he lived until April 
9, 1900. Their eight children were: i. Charles West Hamilton, 
born January 10, 1866 (who died February 10, 1869). 2. Anna 
May Hamilton, born May 10. 1868. 3. Margaret Esther, born 
October 4, 1870. 4. Blanche Roberts, born December 26, 1873. 
5. Charlotte Harriet, born January 6, 1876. 6. George Gordon, 
born July 10, 1877. 7. Lucv' Bell, born ^larch 17, 1880. 8. 
Ruth Florence Hamilton, born September 26, 1883. They all live 
in Wakefield, Mass. 

LOVINA ROBERTS BOWEN. 

II. LOVINA ROBERTS, eleventh child of Joseph and 
Esther, was born in Buckfield, Me., August 8, 1797, and died in 
Bangor, Me., October, 1856. On April 16, 1818, she married Levi 
Bowen. He was born in Minot, Me., February 6, 1795, and died 
in Bangor, Me., August 2, 1869. They were married in Brooks, 
Me., by William Huxford. They lived in Monroe, Me., 
most of their married life, moving to Bangor, Me., in 1853. They 
had twelve children, and Lovina gave them the devoted care of a 
good Christian mother. The first child was : 

I. HULDAH BOWEN, who was born July 25, 1819, and 
married James N. Clements, September 28, 1837. Their children 
were : Lovina Ellen, Lovisa Jane, and John Kelsey Clements. 

James N. Clements emigrated to Australia, and Huldah mar- 
ried Hiram Webber. To them were born: i. Charles H. Web- 
ber, who married Mrs. Martha Ritchie. 2. Sarah ]\L Webber, 
who married Richard Pickard. 3. Emily A. Webber, who mar- 
ried William G. Mills, and died August, 1893. 4. Mary Frances 
Webber, who married Francis D. Turner, and lives in Lowell, 
Mass., at No. 54 Royal street. 5. Lizzie A. Webber, who mar- 
ried Charles C. Mann, who died May 25, 1898. 6. Alarcia Etta 
Webber, who married Wesley H. Jackman, and lives in Windsor, 
Vt. 7. Thomas Alton died at the age of four. 8. Freddie \\'in- 
slow died at the age of four months. 9. Willie L. Webber mar- 
ried Edith Cook. 

Huldah Bowen afterward went west and married a man named 
Butterfield. She died in Rockford. Minn., in T876. 




LOVINA ROBERTS BOWEN. 
Daughter of Joseph and Esther. 



102 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

2. JACOB ROBERTS ROWEN, son of Lovina. was born 
May 21, 1821, in Monroe, .Me., and died October 21, 1873. 
November 3, 1842, be married Sarab J. Clements, wbo was born 
July 8, 1826, and died August. 1850. Their cbildren were: i, 
Rosetta J. Bowen, born July 9, 1843. Sbe married John E. 
Holmes. Tbey bave no cbildren and live in Nortb Cbelmsford, 
]\Iass. 

2. Jobn C. Bowen, l)orn April 2, 1845; niarried Rebecca J. 
Littlefield. He was in the First Maine Cavalry in the Civil War. 
He is now Police Captain in Bangor, Me. Their children were: 
I. Edith Bowen, who married ^Ir. Farnham. They have one 
child, Guy Bowen Farnham. 2. Leslie A. Bowen (now dead). 
3. Lugardie L. Bowen, married William A. Kingsbury. 4. Inez 
E. Bowen (now dead). 5. Herbert L. l^owen, sergeant in First 
Alaine Heavy Artiller}-, in Spanish War. 6. Dora AF Bowen 
(now dead). 7. Earl W. Bowen. 

3. Howard L. Bowen, born November 20, 1847; <^^'cd l*\l)ru- 
ary 14, 1878. He married Cordelia Leathers. They had a son, 
Clifford. 

4. Eldora S. Bowen, born November 25, 1849 ! niarried Lem- 
uel Overlock ; died June 15. 1885. They left two children, Addie 
and Lafayette, who live in North Chelmsford, Mass. 

Jacob Roberts Bowen married Mary R. Leathers in 1853. She 
was born June 2j, 1832. Their six children were: i. x\lton E. 
Bowen, born March 13, 1854; unmarried. 2. Will)ur H. Bowen, 
born February 10, 1856; married Lillian Fletcher. 3. Ada M. 
Bowen, born April 19, 1859; married Howard Leathers. 4. Ellis 
W. Bowen, born February 16, 1861 ; married Lena Clark. 5. 
Rena B. Bowen, born November 20, 1867; married Charles 
Nowell, of Herman. 6. Otis J. Bowen, born May 19, 1873 ; un- 
married. 

Jacob Bowen enlisted, in 1863, in First Maine Heavy Artillery, 
Company F. While in the army he contracted the disease which 
caused his death some years later. 

3. ALVENA BOWEN, l)orn in Brooks, Me.. :\Liy 20, 1823; 
died August 18, 1825. 

4. AMANDA BOWEN, l)orn May 19, 1827; died April 8, 
1849. From childhood she was afflicted with "fits" and finally 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 103 

became insane, and for twenty years was the constant care of her 
mother, who faithfuUy watched over her nisi^ht and day. 

5. LEVI BOWEN, born August 23, 1829; married Emily 
Pattee of A'lonroe, Me., in 1843. They had a son, Herbert L. 
Bowen, who married Flora Mills, in 1878. Their children were 
Maggie, Lottie, Florence and Herbert Bowen. 

Levi Bowen married again, August 7, 1874, in Minneapolis, 
Minn. His second wife was Mrs. Emily Bickford, who was a 
Miss Richardson, of Belgrade, Me. They live now at the sum- 
mer resort on the banks of Lake Sarah, Minn. 

6. LOVINA BOWEN was the sixth child of Lovina. She 
was born October 18. 1832, in Monroe, Me. She was married, in 
1853, to Hiram Webber, of Monroe, Me. They had two children, 
Manter and Ernest, both of whom died young, in Bangor, Me. 

Lovina Bowen Webber in 1867 married a second husband, 
Charles Plummer. They lived in New York city, where she died 
in February, 1872. He lived until 1891. They had one son, 
Charles, who was born September 23, 1868. He is in the dry 
goods business in Boston. He married Cora Chase, of Portland, 
Me., January 12, 1893. They had one child. Stanley Richardson 
Chase, born October 2, 1896. They live in Boston, Mass. 

7. PHEBE BOWEN, seventh child of Lovina. born August 
23, 1834; died February 11, 1835. 

8. OTIS L. BOWEN, born July 15, 1837; died in Bangor, 
Me., September 8, 1856. He died of a fever. A month later his 
mother died of the same fever. She had four more children, but 
they died young and unnamed. 

JOSEPH ROBERTS, THIRD. 

12. JOSEPH ROBERTS, JR., the twelfth child of Joseph 
and Esther, was born in Buckfield, Me., November 2, 1799, ac- 
cording to the town records, but he lived and died in the belief 
that he was born in January, 1800. While he was an infant his 
mother died, and his oldest sister, Hannah, took him home, and, 
with her own little one, gave him a mother's care. When he was 
two or three years old his father moved to Brooks, Me., and, a 
few years later, he was helping on the farm, starting off at two 
and three o'clock in the morning for the market at county seat, 
Belfast, Me., twelve miles away, with his load and yoke of oxen. 




JOSEPH ROBERTS. 3d. 
Son of Joseph and Esther 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 105 

In 1823 Joseph married Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel Knight, 
and Sarah Webb Knight. Lydia was born in Fahnouth, Me., 
December 26, 1798, and died in Levant, Me., January 19, 1894. 
They Hved in Jackson, Me., till 1827, then removed to Palmyra, 
Me., his business being to procure lumber to make oars, which he 
carted to Belfast, Me., to sell. After three years he moved to 
Brooks, Me., on a farm. Here he raised the first barn in Brooks, 
Me., zanthout rum. The first temperance raising of the time. 
Here he and his good wife joined the Free Will Baptist Church. 
There was no schoolhouse in his district. By his perseverance 
he started one, and donated the lot to build it on. In 1844 he 
moved to Levant, Me., and lived there till he died, October 26, 
1885. Politically he was first a Whig, then a Free Soiler and 
later a Republican. 

1. ELIZABETH GATES ROBERTS, the first child of 
Joseph and Lydia, was born in Jackson, Me., August i, 1825 ; she 
married her cousin, Milton Roberts, August i, 1843. ^"^1 died 
December 5, 1895, in Minnesota. They had four children: i. 
Victoria Elizabeth, born in Brooks, Me., April 29, 1847 ' <^^ied July 
5, 1849, in Levant, Me. 

2. Milton M. Roberts, born in Levant, Me., April 22, 1847, is 
unmarried, and lives in Minneapolis, Minn. 

3. Evelyn V. Roberts, born in Levant, November 5, 1849; 
married, in 1870, Frank Tippett. They had one child, Bertie, 
born in 1871, but it died in childhood. 

4. Jessie L. Roberts, born in Jefiferson, Wis., June 12, 1862, 
is luimarried, and lives in Minneapolis. 

2. ABIGAIL KNIGHT ROBERTS, born in Palmyra, Me., 
October 7, 1829 ; married Luther D. Spencer in Bangor, Me., 
April 15, 1852. Their son, Frank Dwinal Spencer, born in Ban- 
gor, Me., November 23, 1854, was married, January 21, 1880, to 
Lizzie Jones. They live in Iowa, and have one son, Harry Dwinal 
Spencer, born January 20, 1881. 

3. NATHANIEL KNIGHT ROBERTS, born in Brooks, 
Me., July 9, 1832; died, unmarried, in Levant, Me., July 29, 1875. 
He was noted for being a fine penman, and taught writing school 
in Bangor, Me. He enlisted, September 30, 1861, in the First 
Maine Gavalry, Company A. He was severely wounded at the 
battle of Middleton, Va., ]\Iay 24, while covering the retreat of 



io6 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

Banks, iiis liursc was killed and splinters of the shell penetrated 
his head and spine. He managed to crawl from luider his horse 
and g-et to the woods, some distance away, and, by crawling, and 
with the help of other wounded soldiers, he got into the Union 
army line and was taken to a hospital. When a raid was expected 
in Washington he was hurried to Philadelphia, Pa. Here he was 
in such a destitute condition that T. S. Arthur, the temperance 
writer, took pity on him, carried him to his own home, gave him 
his parlor, and his family cared for him till he was able to travel. 
Then they procured his discharge and sent him home. He never 
recovered, however, and suffered intensely all the years he lived, 
which he bore with heroic patience, as becomes a brave soldier. 

JOSEPH ROBERTS AND MARGARET HALL. 

Joseph Roberts married for his second wife Margaret Hall 
Forbes and by her had twelve children. She was a daughter of 
Hatevil and Ruth Hall, and was born in Buckfield, Me., in 1777. 
She had been previously married to Zadoc Forbes. He was also 
born in Buckfield, Me., and was a widower with children. 

Zadoc and Margaret liad one son, Isaiah Elliott Forbes, born 
in Buckfield, \[e. He came to Brooks, Me., when seven years 
old, and lived with his uncle, Shadrach Hall, for ten years. He 
then went to learn the wdieelwright's trade. He married Polly 
Bowen, whose mother was a Holmes, cousin to Oliver Wendell 
Holmes. 

Their children w'ere : Richmond W. (now dead), Almon, 
Henry (now dead), Zadoc (now dead). Freeman (now dead), 
Louisa, Lovina (now dead), Francis, Mary A., Maggie, Polaski 
F. (killed by a load of bark tipping over on him). Louisa mar- 
ried Mr. Cilley, Mary married Mr. Leathers, Maggie married 
Mr. Parsons. 

Margaret married Joseph Roberts, in 1801. They had one 
son, whom they called Nathan. He w-as born in Buckfield, Me., 
February 5, 1802. His career was a short one, as he fell into a 
kettle of hot soap, and was so badly burned that he did not live 
long. He was sitting in his chair wdiere his mother w^as at work. 
She heard a strange noise, and, turning round to see her baby, 
found he had died. She lost two more young children, born about 
1809 and 1810, but all the rest of the family lived for many years, 
to recompense her for what she had lost. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



107 



BENJAMIN ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

2. BENJAMIN ROBERTS, the second child of Joseph and 
Margaret Roberts, has the honor of being the first child born in 
the town of Brooks, Me. He came into the town February 4, 
1804, and had the distinction of dying in a rebel prison during the 
Civil War. He married, August 16, 1843, Nancy Cilley, who 
was born April i, 1827, and is still living in the town of Brooks, 





BENJAMIN ROBERTS, 
Son of Joseph and Margaret. 



NANCY ROBERTS. 
Wife of Benjamin Roberts. 



Me. Benjamin was a millman and farmer, but when recruits for 
the Fourth Maine Regiment were called for, he left everything 
and enlisted in Company I on December 5, 1863. The following 
spring he was taken prisoner near Richmond, Va., was taken to 
Libby prison, from there to Salisbury, N. C, where he died of 
starvation, November 2^, 1864. Benjamin and Nancy had five 
children : 

I. DELPHINA H. ROBERTS, born June 7, 1845; mar- 
ried Wellington R. Stimpson of Brooks, Me., September 11, 1867. 
They had five children, viz. : 

I. Frank Stimpson, born June 25, 1869, in Brooks. He mar- 



io8 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

ried Lucy Penney of Brooks, June, 1896. Their children were: 
Harry, born December 24, 1897, and George A., born July 30, 
1900. 

2. Ella Stimpson, born July 25, 1871 ; died January 15, 1882. 

3. Infant son, born September 21, 1873. 

4. Lelia Stimpson, born October 31, 1875; marriel Erving 
Thompson and resides in Knox, Me. They have one child, Ed- 
ward W. Thompson, born September 7, 1899. 

5. Mildred Stimpson, born June 11, 1880. All are living- at or 
near Brooks, Me. 

2. ROSE INA ROBERTS, born July 7, 1846; married, June 
8, 1866, at North Searsport, Me., Stanley A. Perkins, of Stock- 
ton, Me. He has been a sailor much of his life, as first officer of a 
vessel. They have two children : 

1. Lena R. Perkins, born in Stockton, Me., September 6, 1867, 
who married, November 19, 1886, Thomas E. West. They are 
living in Spring street, Auburn, Me., and have two children, 
Lawrence A. West, born May 16, 1888, and Maurice Newton 
West, born December 24, 1890. 

2. Laura A. Perkins, born June 29, 1869, in Brooks, who mar- 
ried, June 10, 1893, Burton F. Wentworth, of South Brooks, Me. 

3. LEILA J. ROBERTS, born December 2, 1847; died Jan- 
uary, 1884, in Lewiston, Me. 

4. CHARLES H. ROBERTS, a farmer and carriage maker, 
was born July 15, 1853. He married, June 23, 1872, Julia Doug- 
las, of Morrell, Me. They have one son, Stanley J. Roberts, born 
in Brooks, October 17, 1873. He was married December 23, 1893, 
in Belfast, Me., to Lillian Woodbury, of Knox, Me. 

JULIA ALMEDA ROBERTS, bom December 17, 1854: mar- 
ried, July 14, 1872, Allen Daggett, of Morrill, Me., who owns a 
steam saw mill and manufactures barrels. They have three 
children, viz. : 

1. George S. Daggett, born in Morrill, Me., April 11, 1873, 
who married Nettie Jackson, of Lijjcrty. Me. Their children are 
Mary L. Daggett, born September 15, 1895, and Stella R. Dag- 
gett, born March 30, 1898. 

2. Harold Daggett, born March 29, 1888. 

3. Edna Daggett, born July 6, 1891. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 109 

JOHN ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

3. JOHN ROBERTS, third child of Joseph and Margaret, 
was born in Brooks, Me., in January, 1806, and died in Minne- 
sota in May, 1886. He married Harriet Jackson in 1834. He 
was a millwright by trade, a man of strong character, moderate 
in speech, radical in his opinions, an early temperance advocate 
and Free Soiler. John and Harriet had eight children, viz. : 

I. SHARON ROBERTS, born January 31, 1836, in Waldo, 
Me. ; married Ann Mary Boody of Jackson, who died October 29. 
1898. They had two children : 

1. Edith Gertrude Roberts, born February 27, 1859, who mar- 
ried Wilbur Barker. They live in Brooks, and have a daughter, 
Irma Barker, born February 20, 1885. 

2. Maud Roberts, born September, 1869; married Frank 
Hogan. They reside in Thorndike, Me., and have three children: 
I. Lewis G. Hogan, born November 21, 1888. 2. Carl Roberts 
Hogan, born February 9, 1891. 3. Gertrude May Hogan, bom 
November 18, 1893. 

2. AUGUSTA ANN ROBERTS, born August 8, 1838. in 
Waldo. Me., was a successful teacher for many years in Somer- 
ville, Mass. Li 1885 she married Reuben Harwood, who died 
September 26, 1901. Augusta died November 24, 1901, in West- 
boro, Mass. 

3. LENORA AVILDA ROBERTS, born in Brooks, April 2. 
1840, was married December, 1859, to Frank Knowles, a dentist 
and farmer. He was a lieutenant of Company M, First Maine 
Heavy Artillery, and was killed in battle of Spottsylvania, Va., 
May 19, 1864. They had two sons: 

1. Frank Berten Knowles, born August 27, 1861. He mar- 
ried Katie Ames of Minneapolis, Minn.. October, 1881. They 
had two sons, Jimmie Knowles, born February, 1882, and died, 
and Paul F. Knowles, born in August, 1890. 

2. Edgar Winslow Knowles, born November 26. 1862, in 
Brooks. He married Toppie Brown at Breckenridge, Minn., 
June, 1883. They had four children, viz. : i. Bernice Knowles, 
born in June, 1885. 2. Gertrude Knowles, born August, 1887. 
3. Vera Knowles, born July, 1889. 4. Eva Knowles, born June, 
1891. 




JOHN ROBERTS. 
Son of Joseph and Margaret. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. ill 

Edgar Knowles died in Minnesota December 20, 1891, and his 
family removed to Ottawa, 111., the former home of his wife. 

Lenora Avilda married again, December, 1887, Daniel P. Con- 
over. They reside in Champlin, Minn. 

4. JAY R0BF:RTS. born November 14, 1842, in Brooks. 
He enlisted in the Twenty-Sixth Maine Regiment and served the 
full term of service with that command, about one year. He 
contracted southern fever in Louisiana and died August 23, 1863, 
soon after he was discharged. 

5. EDDIE ROBERTS died when ten months old. 

6. ROSE ALBA ROBERTS, born October 14. 1844, in 
Brooks, Me. ; married Clarendon Boody, of Jackson, Me.. Decem- 
ber 7, 1865. They now reside in St. Paul. 

They have three children, as follows: i. Lizzie Boody, born 
November 6, 1872, in Brooks, Me. 2. Claire Lenora Boody, 
born July I, 1880, in Minnesota. 3. Clyde Bruce Boody, born 
June 28, 1886. 

7. EVERETT W. ROBERTS, born November 4. 1846 ; mar- 
ried Mellissa A. Munson. April, 1870. She died in Minnesota, 
February 20, 1889. 

Bert Roberts, the oldest son, born in IMinnesota, February, 1872, 
is a locomotive engineer. He married A^erna Hanson. They have 
a son, born April 13, 1897. 

Everett's second child was born and died in 1874, and the third 
child, John, was born and died in 1878. The fourth child, Frank, 
was born in 1886 and the fifth child, Nellie, was born in October, 
1888. 

Everett's second wife was Mrs. Viola Phelps (nee Rutledge). 
They have one daughter, Mary H., born July 22, 1895. 

8. DORA ROBERTS, born October 2^, 1850, in Brooks, Me., 
married Edward Boody of Jackson, Me. Bertha Boody, 
born December 16, 1873, is a dressmaker in West Som- 
erville, Mass., and Everett Boody, who was born November 18, 
1875, are their children. 

Dora's second husband is Frank Sanborn. They are in the 
restaurant business in West Somerville. Mass. 



112 THE ROBERTS FAMILY 

ALFRED J. ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

4. ALFRED J. ROBERTS, fourth child of Joseph and Mar- 
garet, was born October 21, 1807, in Brooks, and died there Octo- 
ber 15, 1868. His early educational advantages were limited, but 
for many years he was the leading business man of the portion 
of the country where he resided. He was a man of great force 
of character and remarkable business capacity. He engaged ex- 
tensively in lumbering operations and at one time owned the 
greater part of the timber lands and mills in Brooks, giving em- 
ployment to a large number. He was a strong man physically 
and mentally, a public-spirited citizen, who used his powerful 
influence always for temperance, free soil and free men. 

He married, October 10, 1831, Caroline, daughter of Joseph 
Davis, sister of Judge Woodbury Davis and Hon. Allen Davis. 
She was born x-\pril 5, 1813, and died October 9, 1857. They had 
eleven children, viz. : 

1. ADELAIDE S. ROBERTS, born November 12, 1832. 
She makes her home with her sisters. 

2. MARY ANN ROBERTS, born March 10, 1835; died 
November 4, 1861. She married, November 10, 1853, Michael 
Chase of Brooks, who died in 1900. They had one child : 

Alfred Edward Chase, born September 13, 1855, who married, 
October 28, 1880, Lizzie Pilley. They have two children : i. 
Millard Filmore Chase, born September 2, 1881. 2. Marie Louise 
Chase, born December 15, 1888. They reside in Brooks, Me., 
where A. E. Chase has been engaged for many years in the mer- 
cantile business, as was his father before him. 

3. LOUISE C. ROBERTS, born August 3, 1837; died April 
25, 1884. She married, June 21, 1865, Otis Libby, a soldier of 
the Rebellion, who. a member of the Sixteenth Maine Regiment, 
was wounded in battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862. 
They had two children : 

1. Lewis Alfred Libbv, born March 20, 1867; ^^ied March 27, 
1874. 

2. Ernest Libby, born ]\Iarch 14. 1877, who is now teaching 
school in Concord, Mass. 

Otis Libby again married in April, 1895, Ellen M. Briggs, 
youngest daughter of Hon. Allen Davis of Brooks, a cousin to 
his first wife. 




ALFRED J. ROBERTS. 
Son of Joseph and Margaret. 



114 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

4. ABBIE I). ROBERTS, bom June 9. 1839; died October 

14, 1885 ; married Michael Chase November 24, 1862. They had 
one child, Lena Chase, who was born February 23, 1867. She 
married \\'illard S. Jones, ^lay 28. 1896. He has a furniture 
store in Brooks. They have two children, viz. : Christine Abby 
Jones, born August 30, 1897, and llollis W. Jones, born April 

15, 1900. 

5. CHARLES ALFRED ROBERTS, born April 22, 1842; 
died April i, 1846. 

6. EDWARD ROBERTS. l)orn December 3, 1844 ; died Feb- 
ruary 5. 1846. 

7. ALFRED ROBERTS, born January 10, 1847; Jied March 

15' 1855. 

8. SARAH FRANCES ROBERTS, born ^larch 15, 1840; 
married Hollis Blackstone February 8, 1877, who then resided in 
Freedom, Me. He is now superintendent of the state farm at 
Bridgewater. Mass. They had three children, viz. : 

1. Alfred Blackstone, born October 25, 1879, who is now 
attending Brown L^niversity. 

2. Nellie Blackstone, born December 22, 1881 ; died January 
21, 1887, in Boston. 

3. Helen Blackstone. born December 31. 1886. 

9. ELLEN ROBERTS, born January 16, 1852; married De- 
cember 24, 1871, James Walter Jones, son of Libbeus Jones of 
Brooks. Their children are: Sarah Jones, bom July 7, 1874, and 
Elizabeth Jones, born August 17, 1877. They reside in Belfast, 
Me. 

10. ISABEL ROBERTS, bom March 27,, 1855; mairied. 
September 16, 1891, Benjamin Robinson of Bridgewater, Mass 
He is assistant superintendent of state farm, was a member of 
Third Massachusetts Infantry nine months and eighteen months 
in U. S. navy during the war. 

IT. WILLIA^^I ROBERTS, born September 5, 1857; died 
September 23, 1858. 

Alfred Roberts married for his second wife, in i860. Sarah, a 
daughter of Watson Roberts, a distant relative. Their children 
were: 12. Laura, born ^March 20, 1861 : died April 20, 1862. 
13. Alfred J. Roberts, born July 28. 1863; died February 28, 
1875. 14. Henry M. Roberts, born May 7, 1865 : died Septem- 
ber 7, 1867. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 115 

5. RUTH ROBERTS, and (6) MARY ROBERTS, the fifth 
and sixth children of Joseph and Margaret, died when very 
young. 

TIMOTHY ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

7. TIMOTHY T. ROBERTS, horn July 31, 1812; died 
March 19, 1868, in Brooks, Me. He married, March 18, 1835, 
Nancy E. Gardner. She was born October 3, 1807, and died 
February 18, 1894. Timothy was a farmer the greater portion of 
his life, although like his father and brothers, was considerably 
interested in milling at times. Four children were born to them : 

I. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON ROBERTS, born Oc- 
tober 31. [835. He married, August 6, 1856, Esther B. Rand 
of Thorndike, Me. They live in Brooks, and have had four chil- 
dren, viz. : 

1. Forrest K. Roberts, born February 9, i860; married Mabel 
Penney, and they have two children, viz. : Claire E. Roberts, born 
July 3. 1890, and Olive G., born February 3, 1894. 

2. Elmer G. Roberts, born January 12. 1862; married Estelle 
Card. They live in Brooks and have had one daughter, who died 
in infancy. 

3. Edna M. Roberts, born December 6, 1865 ; married Julia 
Wentworth. They reside in Ouincy, Mass., and have four chil- 
dren, viz.: Tomasita Margarita Roberts, born April 26, 1889; 
William Harrison Roberts, born August 29, 1891 ; Esther Myrtle 
Roberts, l)orn October 5. 1893 ; Edward Nathaniel Roberts, born 
October 5, 1897. 

2. MANTER ALVERADO ROBERTS, born October i, 
1838; married Mercy P. Silsby of Aurora. Me., January 25, 1875. 
He is a carpenter contractor and they reside in Bangor, Me. Mau- 
ler served in the Nineteenth Maine Regiment during the war of 
rebellion. 

3. MARCIA ANN ROBERTS, born November 31, 1840: 
died in Lowell, Mass., December 14, 1889. She married, March 
22, 1856, John Hall. They had two children: i. Albert, liorn 
in 1858. who lives in Minnesota. 2. Eldora, born in 1864: died 
in 1868. 

4. OSCAR E. ROBERTS, born June 7, 1844, in Corinna, 
Me. : removed to Brooks with his parents in 1848. He now re- 



Ii6 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

sides in L}nn, Mass., and is a caljinet maker ])y trade, being em- 
ployed at Bar Harbor, Mc, during the summer months. He en- 
listed in the Nineteenth Maine Regiment at the age of eighteen 
years, serving until the close of the war. He married, in Knox, 
Me., November 23. 1867, Romilia A. Clements, who was born in 
Waldo, Me., May 4, 1851. They have had three children, viz.: 

1. Emma F. Roberts, born in Brooks, April 22, 1869. 

2. Lizzie E. Roberts, born in Belfast, Me., October 21, 1877. 

3. Willie O. Roberts, born in Belfast, December 14, 1880; 
died June i, 1882. 

8. CHARLES ROBERTS, the eighth child of Joseph, and 
Margaret, was a l)lack-eyed boy, born in January, 1814. Lie mar- 
ried Clarinda Havener of Brooks, and fitted himself for a physi- 
cian, and had already given promise of great skill, when prema- 
turely taken away, January 6, 1840. 

■ NATHAN ROBERTS' FAAHLY. 

9. NATHAN HALL ROBERTS, the ninth child of Joseph 
and Margaret, was born in Brooks, Me., June 9, 181 5, and died 
September 9, 1892, in Minneapolis, Minn. He was married in 
1840 to Elvira Irish, daughter of Stephen Irish of Buckfield, Me., 
where she was born in 1813. She died, October, 1872, in Minne- 
sota. They lived on the home place in Brooks, until the death 
of his father, in 1843, then removed to Harmony, Me., going from 
there to Minnesota about 1856, and took a government home- 
stead near Minneapolis, then a prairie; was a farmer on a large 
scale ; gave up his farm there to his children who had married, 
and went to the southern part of the state and rented a farm of 
800 acres, where he made a large amount of money in the business. 
He returned and l)ought a farm, now in the city of Minneapolis, 
where he lived for many years. He was for six years Commis- 
sioner for Hennepin County and when his home became a part of 
the city by annexation he was elected alderman of his ward, serv- 
ing four years, until his health failed. He was a man of a rugged 
and cheering personality, of great enterprise and possessing the 
strength of character so pronounced in the familv. Nathan and 
Elvira's children were : 

I. ARRINGTON ROBERTS, born in Brooks, Me., August 
28, 1842. He married, July 3, 1869, jennctte Ray, in A'linneapo- 




NATHAN HALL ROBERTS, 
Son of Joseph and Margaret. 



ii8 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

lis. ^linn. They separated, and he married Josephine Burnham, 
in 1876. She died in ]888. He makes his home with his sister 
in ]\IinneapoUs. 

2. CHARLES A. ROBERTS (a farmer), was born April 5, 
1846. in Brooks, Me. He married, June 28, 1868, Matilda ]Moran, 
of jMinneapolis, Minn. They live in Leonard, N. D., and have 
three children, Will, Lee and Charles, i. Will (a farmer), was 
born Alarch 21, 1869, and is now in Sanborn. Minn. 2. Lee 
(lumber merchant in Fargo, N. D.), was born in 1871. He 
married Grace Gurley. They have two children. 3. Charles, 
born in 1876, commands a lake steamer. 

3. MARY ROBERTS, born in Harmony, ^le.. April 15. 
1850; married, December 22. 1868, Isaac Layman of Minneapolis, 
Minn., who served in the war of rebellion in a Minnesota regi- 
ment. Their children number seven, as follows : 

1. Maggie Bell Layman, born October 17, 1869; married 
Merrill E. Williams, July 22, 1897. They have one child, Arthur 
Layman Williams, born December 15, 1899. They reside in 
Le Roy, Minn. 

2. Cora Agnes Layman, born April 2, 1872; married, June 
26, 1895, Frank Whiteley of Wisconsin. Their children are: i. 
Chester Layman Whiteley, born May 3. 1896. 2. Alice Mar- 
garet Whiteley, born January 22, 1898. 3. Clarion Whiteley, 
born December 26, 1899. They live in Cedar avenue, ^linne- 
apolis, Minn. 

3. Martin Hall Layman, born June 24, 1875 ; died February 
5. 1879. 

4. Martha Elvira Layman. Ijorn September 25, 1877; ^^^^^ 
February 9, 1878. 

5. Jesse Lsaac Layman, born May 3, 1880. 

6. Arthur Jerome Layman, liorn June 10, 1883. 

7. Clarence Earl Layman, liorii May i, 1888. 

Nathan Hall Roberts married. A])ril 25. 1874. Mary Sophia 
Langham, who was born in the Kingdom of Norway, May 14, 
1846. To them were born two sons : 

I. JOHN NELSON ROBERTS, born April 11, 1876, who 
married, September 20, 1899, Jessie Shugars. They have one 




MARY ROBERTS FOGG. 
Daughter of Joseph and Margaret. 



I20 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

child, Beatrice Marietta Roberts, born "Siay 14, 1901. John 
served in a Minnesota regiment in the Phihppine-Spanish War. 
They reside in 2521 Cedar avenue, MinneapoHs, Minn. 

2. GUY HALL ROBERTS, born December 8, 1877; mar- 
ried, July 28, 1896, Dora L. Shipton. They had one child, Mer- 
cedes Alexander Roberts, born September 2;^, 1901 ; died Septem- 
ber 28, 1 90 1. 

Guy Hall Roberts was also a soldier of the Spanish War. He 
graduated from the Minnesota University at Alinneapolis. Was 
one year in Chicago University and is now on his senior year in 
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 

MARY ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

10. MARY TAYLOR ROBERTS, tenth child of Joseph and 
Margaret, was born in Brooks, Me., October, 1818. She was mar- 
ried, in 1843, to Calvin Fogg, and died, in Minneapolis, Minn., 
December, 1893. Her four children were born in Brooks, Me., 
where their early years were spent. 

1. FRANCEATLLA FOGG was born January 15, 1844. She 
was married to Phineas Phelps, July 4, 1871. A boy was born 
to them, Init it died in 1872. Another boy was born and died in 
June, 1874. Harry E. Phelps, the third child, was born in Minne- 
apolis, Minn.. June 2t,, 1876. He graduated from Alinnesota 
L'niversity in 1898, took a course of study at law. opened an office 
for practice of the same in Britton, X. D., and became editor of 
a newspaper tliere, in April, 1899. He married \ ivian Furber of 
Minneapolis, m June, 1901. 

2. EUGENE FOGG, born in 1849: died in Brooks, Me., in 
1856. 

3. CLARENCE FOGG, born in 1857; married Anna Brant, 
in Minneapolis. They liavc one son, Calvin Fogg, born about 
1884. 

CAROLINE FOGG, born in 1859, married Everett 15rant, in 
Minneapolis. They were divorced in 1898. She lives in Seattle, 
Wash. They had a son, Charles, born about 1886. 

WTNSLOW^ ROBERTS' FAMILY. 

11. WINSLOW ROBERTS, the eleventh child of Josepli and 
Margaret, was born in Brooks, Me., March 8, 1821, and died in 
Waterville, Me., June 17, 1879. While possessing all the jnish- 




WINSLOW ROBERTS, 
Son of Joseph and Margaret. 



122 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

ing attributes so characteristic of liis father and other members 
of the family, he also found time to devote himself to study 
and was the scholarly member of the last family of Joseph. He 
taught school in Maine and other states, his last teaching being 
in Xew York State, where he married his first wife. He read 
law and was admitted to practice, but adopted mercantile pur- 
suits, putting aside all, however, to enter the army, which he did 
in 1861, serving in Louisiana as lieutenant in Company I and 
captain of Company D, Fourteenth Maine, under Colonel Frank 
S. Nickerson, of Searsport. He resigned the latter part of 1863 
to accept a commission as captain in the U. S. Coast Guards. 
At the close of the war he commenced the manufacture of boot 
shanks, at Brooks, which l)usiness he transferred to Waterville, 
Ale., and successfully engaged in the same until his death. He 
represented Brooks in the Maine State Legislature, being elected 
in September, 1859. He was a man of fine personal appearance, 
with engaging manners and intellectual face. 

Winslow was married three times and had seven children, his 
first wife being Amelia Putnam, who died in June, 1849. His 
second wife was Cornelia Rand, who died in Framingham, Mass., 
in January, 1864. Their children ^vere : - 

1. CORA ROBERTS, born in Shrewsbury, Mass., July 30, 
1855. She married Wesley J. Maynard of Waterville, a railroad 
man. They have one daughter, Alice Maynard, born November 
19. 1878. They now reside in Portland, Me. 

2. ELLEN A. ROBERTS, l)orn in Brooks. Me., April 7, 
1 861 ; married Edward E. Sibley of Waterville. Me. They have 
one son. Arthur Winslow Sibley, born June 27. 1884. 

Winslow married for his third wife Aiaria Bangs. Thev had 
five children, viz. : 

1. EDWARD W. ROBERTS, born in Brooks, Me.. Decem- 
ber 20. 1865. He married. ()ct<)l)er n;, 1887, Grace Burwell of 
Minneapolis, Minn. 

2. ALICE AL\Y ROBERTS, born in B.rooks, May 5, 1868; 
died in Waterville. Me., March 15, 1873. 

3. JAM1-:S ALTON ROBERTS, born in Waterville. October 
2-^, 1874. He married George Anna Guptill of Minneapolis, 
November 28, 1900. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 123 

4. WALTER HENRY ROBERTS, born in Watervillc, Feb- 
ruary 15, 1876. He married ATary Elizabeth Harvey, March 7, 
1900. She died May 2, 1901. Lilhan Marie was born to them, 
January 4, 1901. \\'akcr served in tlie PhiHppincs in the hospital 
corps. 

5. .MARY FRANCES ROBERTS was born in VVaterville, 
March 21, 1879. She resides with her mother in Minneapolis, 
1 1 14 East Thirty-sixth street. 

RUFUS ROBERTS' FAAHLY. 

12. RUFUS ROBERTS, the youngest of the twelve children 
of Joseph and Margaret and twenty-fourth of Joseph, was born 
in Brooks, Me., April 14, 1823, and died in Minneapolis, Minn., 
in May, 1900. He was engaged in the mill l)usiness in his earlier 
days, and served in the latter part of the war as second lieu- 
tenant in the Fourteenth Maine Regiment. Shortly after his dis- 
charge he followed his brothers to ]\Iinnesota, locating in Minne- 
apolis, where he held a city position for many years, until his 
death. He married, October 20, 1844, in Brooks, Me., Adeime 
Files, of Thorndike, Me., who was born May 10, 1823. They had 
six children as follows : 

1. JULIETTE ROBERTS, born in Brooks, September 17, 
1846. She married, in 1869, A. E. Ayers of Minneapolis. Their 
home is in No. 450 Jefferson street, northeast, Minneapolis. They 
have had ten children, as follows: i. Rufus D. Ayers, born 
May 14, 1870; married and lives in Alinneapolis. 2. Frank 
Ayres, bom August 21, 1871 ; killed by cars May 23, 1879. 3- 
Annie Ayres, born December 2t,, 1874; married William Koobon, 
and lives in St. Paul, ^Nlinn. 4. Charles Ayres, born January 2, 
1876; married Jennie Merrill. He was killed in a Montana mine, 
in June, 1897. 5. Riley Ayers, born April 17, 1879. 6. Florence 
Ayers, born March 18, 1882. 7. Albert Ayers, bom April 17, 
1884. 8. Archie Ayers, born June 6, 1886. 9. Ethel Ayers, 
born Mav 22, 1890. 10. Ralph Ayers, born October 17, 1893. 

2. ELLA, AND (3) JOSEPH ROBERTS, twins, were born 
July 20, 1850. Ella lived eleven months, Joseph lived two hours. 

4. FRED LESLIE ROBERTS was born in Brooks, Me., 
July 21, 1854. In 1876, he married Josie Briley. from whom he 
was divorced. They had two children as follows : 




RUFUS ROBERTS. 

Son of Jo.-cpli and Margaret 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 125 

1. Leslie Perry Roberts, born May i, 1878. He married May 
Hoffman, July 8, 1897. They had one son, Earl Roberts, born 
August 15, 1898. 

2. GLADYS AL\Y ROBERTS, born June 11, 1883. Lives 
with her mother in Pueblo, Colo. Leslie remained with his father. 

In 1892 Fred Leslie Roberts married again, this time Emma 
Mitchell. There were born to them the following children: i. 
Emma Hay, born December, 1892, in Morris, Minn. 2. A son, 
unnamed; died in 1893. 3. Inez, born Jul}' 3, 1895. 4- Lillian, 
born March 29, 1896. 5. An infant, unnamed; died August 10, 
1899. 

5. FRANK H. ROBERTS, born December 9, i860; married 
Sadie Kessler, of Rockford, ^linn., ]\Iarch 24, 1884. She died 
March 20, 1885. Frank married Annie E. Sutherland, June 3, 
1886. They have two children: i. Howard Leroy Roberts, 
born July 24, 1887. 2. Hazel Viola Roberts, born April 3, 1890. 

6. ADDIE D. ROBERTS was born in Minneapolis, August 
4, 1869. She married Frank Colville, Jr., March 4, 1890. They 
live in her father's house and have four children, as follows: i. 
Lizzie Colville, born November 8, 1891. 2. Alice Colville, born 
June 21, 1893. 3. Ned Colville, born February 4, 1895. 4- John 
Colville, born March 15, 1897, 



126 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

JOSEPH'S SISTER HANNAH. 

HANNAH, the oldest (lauL;htcT, sister of Joseph, Jr., the revo- 
lutionary soldier, married James Jordan, in 1780. 

He was the son of James Jordan, born in Standish Neck, Cum- 
berland county, Me. J lis moth.er was Phebe Philbrick, of Kit- 
tery. She lived to be ninety, and he to be ninety-six. 

James Jordan, Jr., and Hannah, li\ed in Monroe, Me. After 
living many years a widow, she died at an advanced age at the 
home of her son Isaac in Monroe. They had twelve children, 
as follows : 

Joseph Roberts Jordan, born September 8, 1781. He married 
Abigail Lowe Brown, daughter of James and Prudence Brown. 

They went to Ohio. They had eleven children, viz. : 

Myra, Mary, Elna, Ephraim, Corneliu.s, Martin, Prudence, 
Alarcus, Merritt, Abl)ie. Lina, all dead but Lina, who was living 
in Elmwood, 111., in 1898. 

The fourth child, Ephraim, lived in Yates City, PI. His son 
Martin is a merchant there now. His son Joseph lives in Gales- 
burg, ni. His son Justin Ephraim lives in Chicago. A number 
of Joseph Jordan's descendants live in Lewiston, 111. 

2. James Jordan, 3d, born 1783 (nothing further known 
about him). 

3. Jonathan, born 1785; died aged fifteen. 

4. Hannah, born 17S7; married John B. Ward, of Alonroe, 
Me. They had ten children ; only Rufus and Mary Lang living 
in 1898, in Brcjoks, Me. 

5. Mary Zilpha, born 1787 ; burned to death in the home, aged 
three years. (Hannah and Mary Zilpha were twins.) 

6. Elizabeth, born I78(;: married Benjamin Ward. 

7. John, born 1791 ; married Joanna Brown, sister to Abigail. 
John Jordan li\ed and died in Elmwood, 111. 

His children were : Sarah, Betsey, William, Lester and Han- 
nah. 

Betsey married William Gray. 

Their children were: \\'illiam (who lives in Wyoming, 111.), 
Alice, John, Baby, Charles. 

William Jordan liad five children. 

They were: John, Esther, Betty, William and Charles. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 127 

Lester died when quite a young man, leaving two children. 
Hannah married and died. 

8. Isaac, born 1793; married Eliphalet's widow. 

9. Eliphalet. born 1795 ; died while yet a young man. 

10. Esther, born 1797; married John Cunningham. 

11. Sarah, born 1800. 

12. Philena, born 1802; died aged two. 

JOSEPH'S SISTER SARAH. 

SARAH, third child of Joseph, Sr., and Hannah, was born in 
Windham, jNIe., June, 1764, and died March 4, 1855. 

She married Jotham Shaw, son of John Shaw, who was born 
in Weymouth, ^lass., Seutember 25, 1764, and died in Buckfield, 
Me., April 18, 1832. 

The children of Sarah and Jotham Shaw were : 

1. Xoa, born December 25, 1787; married John Hutchinson; 
died June 4, 1866. 

2. Jesse, born November 5, 1789; married Catherine Morse; 
died September 12, 1886. 

The children of Jesse and Catherine Shaw were Sylvira, 
Francis, Marie, James, Henry, Jotham, Alfred, George. 

3. Elmira, lx)rn May 11, 1791 ; married Joseph Chase; died 
October 16, 1856. 

The children of Elmira and Joseph Chase were : Jane, Miriam, 
Sarah, Lewis. 

4. Amos, born December 6, 1793; married Mary Chase; died 
May 20, 1857. 

The children of Amos and Mary Shaw were : Zenas, Silas, 
Joseph, Wilson. 

5. Miriam, born September 16, 1796; married Edmund Hall; 
died January 2^, 1887. 

6. Charlotte, born August 23, 1799 ; died April 3, 1805. 

7. Jotham, born December 3, 1801 ; married Sarepta Whit- 
ing, died June 24, 186S. 

The children of Jotham and Sarepta Shaw were : Mary Eliza- 
beth, Addison, Charlotte, William, Isaac, Charles, Antoinette. 



I2S THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

8. John. Iiorn .March lo. 1804: married Irene Irish; died 
June II. 1888. 

The children of John and Irene Shaw were: Phebe, Rosette, 
John. Eliza. Sarah. Jotham. 

9. Isaac, born May 21. 1806; married Joanna Teague; died 
April 8. 1894. 

The children of Isaac and Joanna Shaw were: Sabina. An- 
gelica. Eliza. ]\Iary. \\"ilson. 

10. Charlotte, bom Txlarch 20, 1810; married Thomas Gates; 
died November 13. 1900. 

The children of Charlotte an 1 Thomas Cates were : Sarah, 
Celestia. Miriam. Mellen. 

JOSEPH'S BROTHER JONATHAX. 

JONATHAN, fourth child of Joseph. Sr.. and Hannah Rob- 
erts, was born about 1766. His marriage intentions were recorded 
in Windham. ]\Ie.. July 15. I78('). tie was married January 24, 
1787, by Rev. Peter Smith, in Windham, Me., to Prudence Wil- 
lard (born March 1767). 

Her parents died in Cape Eli::abcih when she was young, and 
she went to live with her Grandfather Hutchinson in \Mndham, 
Me. Early in the nineteenth omtury they removed to Brooks, 
Me., living on Roberts Hill. 

After Jonathan's death she married Samuel Kinsley. Tliey 
had no children. She died December 20, 1843. aged seventy-six 
years. Jonathan and Prudence had seven children. 
They were : 

Jotham. bom December 2S. 1787. 
Lydia, born October 26. 1789. 

3. Daniel, born December 30. 1791. 

4. Hannah, born. December 27,, 1793. 
A\'illaru. born ^larch 21. 1796. 
Gyrus, bom March 29. 1798. 

Another Cyrus was born April 21, 1803. The Gyrus bom 
March 29, 1798. died. 

The second Gyrus went to sea. He sailed from Boston in 1825, 
and was never heard of after. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 129 

JOTHAM ROBERTS, born in Buckfield, Me., December 28, 
1787, went to Brooks, Me., an 1 returned from Brooks, Me., to 
Buckfield, Me., after several ye; rs. 

He married, first, Mary Ricbardson, in 1810; second, the widow 
Lydia Doe (born Doble) ; tbird, tbe widow Hannah Woodman 
(born Walker, Freeport, Me.) 

He had children only by the Hrst wife. 

The gravestone in Buckfield, Me., reads: "Died April 30, 1865, 
aged seventy-seven years and fonr months." He was a merchant 
and cabinet-maker. 

Mary Richardson Roberts di°d at Buckfield, Me., March 4, 
1850; aged fifty-seven years. Mary Roberts is ine line of a 
Samuel Richardson, who was bom in England about 1610 and 
came to America in 1636. 

Ezekiel Richardson (maternal side), who came from England 
in 1630, settled in Wobum, Mass. 

Steven Richardson, of Wobum, Mass. (bom February 7, 
1673; died February 4, 1752), was a deacon, a captain in the 
militia and a selectman of Woburn, Mass. 

Her grandfather. Dr. Adam Richardson, was born in Woburn, 
Mass., April 10, 1709. He graduated from Harvard, 1730. He 
was a physician in Groton, Mass., and Wolnirn, Mass. His wife's- 
name was Rebecca. 

FIDELIA ROBERTS, oldest child of Jotham and Mary, was 
born December 5, 181 1. She married Leonard Rowe of Pishon's 
Ferry, Me. 

Their children were : Howard, lantha. Clarendon, Hannah and 
Charles. 

None but Hannah and Charles are living. 

Mr. Rowe was a thrifty farmer. He spent four years in Cali- 
fornia as a gold hunter, but, while quite successful, he did not 
strike it immensely rich. He was killed in 1887 by the falling 
of a bridge over which he was driving. 

Fidelia Roberts Rowe was an especially well-read woman and 
a fine conversationalist. She always took a lively interest in all 
the political issues of the day. She died at Pishon's Ferry, Me., 
September 9, 1891. 

lantha Rowe married Oscar Jones of Clinton, Me. Mrs. Jones 
is survived by two children, viz. : Ada, a milliner, and Philip, a 



1.30 THE ROBERTS EAMILY. 

telegraph operator, both of whom make their home at Fairfield, 
Me. 

Hannah Rowe married Tlmmas Burrill and lives in Boston. 

lANTHA ROBERTS was Jotham's second daughter. She was 
born in Vassalboro May 13, 1813. She died in Clinton, Me., Octo- 
ber 3, 1852. She was married in Brooks, Me., to John Totman, 
February 13, 1831. He was born in Abington, Mass., April 6, 
1807, and died in Clinton, Me., April 6, 1888. 

He w^as postmaster and justice of the peace in Clinton, ]\Ie., 
1844, till his death, and held town offices almost continuously 
<luring his residence in Clinton, Me. He was in the state senate 
in 1858-59, and in the house in 1873. For his sterling worth of 
character he was loved and respected by all who knew him. 

Ten children were born of this marriage. 

They are as follows : 

1. Thomas Clarendon Totman, born in Brooks, Me., Febru- 
ary 2, 1833; died in Clinton, Me., July 23, 1865. He enUsted in 
Civil War in 1861, and served three years. 

2. Mary Adelaide Totman, born in Fairfield, Me., March 16, 
1835. She now lives in California. She was married in 1856 to 
Silas B. Starbird, of Fairfield, Me., who died in San Diego, Cal., 
in September, 1898. 

Thev had eight children, born in Fairfield, Me., namely : Wal- 
ter, born 1857. He was an electrician. Mary Starbird, bom 
1859. Martha Totman Starbird, born 1861 ; married Lewellyn 
Covel. Ralph Starbird, born 1862; now hves in San Francisco; 
is married and has two boys. He is a lumberman. John Star- 
bird, born 1867; died 1893; married Blanche Malbon, in 1884. 
Fannie Starbird, born 1868; died 1893. Horatio Wheeler Star- 
bird, born 1875 ; bailiff in San Jose, Cal. George Starbird, born 
1876. He is now a physician in San Francisco. 

3. Fidelia Roberts Totman, born in Fairfield, Me., June 10, 
1837; married Oscar D. Allen, who was born in Hebron, Me., 
February 26, 1836. He is now professor of chemistry in Yale 
College. He has three children. They are : John Allen, born in 
Hebron, Me., 1863, who is now a chemist. Granville Allen, born 
in Carver Harbor, Me., 1865, who is now a teacher. Edward 
Tvson Allen, born in New Haven, Conn., 1876. 



THE ROBERTS EAMILY. 131 

4. Sarah Louise Totniaii, born in Clinton, Mc, July 23, 1839; 
married Benjamin F. Eaton. He was born in Clinton, Me., March, 
1836. 

Kathleen Louise Eaton, bom January, i860; married Joseph P. 
Oak, a merchant of Skovvhegan, Me., June, 1889. 

They had one child, Pauline Eaton Oak, born March 6, 1893. 
in Skovvhegan, Me. 

Frederic Maurice Eaton, born December, 1861 ; married Made- 
line Job Pullen. She was born in Hyattsville, N. J., July, 1862. 
(F. M. Eaton, physician in Millville, N. J., has one son, Paul 
Rodney Eaton, born in Camden, N. J., December 26, 1891.) 

5. Charles Leslie Totman, born in Clinton, Me., September 
II, 1841 ; enlisted in Twenty-fourth Maine Regiment, September, 
1862. He died in New Orleans, La., March 3, 1863. 

6. John Melvin Totman, born January 2^, 1844; died Feb- 
ruary 2, 1845. 

7. John Aurelian Totman, born March 22, 1846; died Febru- 
ary 13, 1864. He enlisted in Twenty-fourth Maine Regiment, 
September, 1862. 

8. Clara Aurelia Totman, born June 16, 1848; died January 
27, T850. 

9. Willis V. Totman, born June i, 185 1.. He is now 
living in Clinton, Me. He is a merchant, justice of peace, 
postmaster and farmer. He married Ellen Hunter, of Clinton, 
Me., and has two children, namely, Arthur Hunter Totman, born 
June, 1878, and John Totman, born June, 1879. 

PRUDENCE ROBERTS, Jotham's third daughter was bom 
March 12, 1815, and died in 1848, in Buckfield, Me. She was a 
teacher and had great literary ability. 

AURELL\ ROBERTS, born April 24, 1819; died in 1846, in 
Buckfield, Me. She was especially gifted, and was very ambitious. 
Her death, as well as that of her sister Prudence, was caused by 
overwork. 

ORLANDO ROBERTS, born June 25, 1817. Was an archi- 
tect and builder and lived in Bridgeport, Conn. He moved to 

Ohio and married Neal. They had ten children, of whom 

three are living. 

Addison Roberts, born January 29, 1821 : died in 1822. 



132 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

Loring Roberts, liorii December 28, 1822; died 1824. 

Thomas Loring- Roberts, born May 6, 1825, in Brooks, Me.; 
married. October 6, 1850, Nancy I^llen Perry, the daughter of 
Barney Perry of Turner, Me. She was Ijorn in 1822 and died 
in Auburn, Me., December 26, 1897. She was an especially lov- 
able woman and deeply devoted to her family. Thomas Roberts 
was a member of the Sixteenth Maine Regiment, was prominent 
in G. A. R. affairs, and, at his death, left a host of friends to 
mourn his loss. His children were : Mary Roberts, born in Turn- 
er, Me., August 9, 1 85 1. She married George Gibbs Gifford, who 
was born in Canton, Me., in 1847. He has always been prominent 
in politics. He represented Auburn, Me., in Androscoggin county 
in the house, 1887-89. He traces his genealogy to William the 
Conqueror. Mrs. Gifford is especially interested in club work 
and is also well known in musical circles. 

REBECCA ROBERTS, born at Buckfield, Me., March 16, 
1830, died in Auburn, Ale., September, 1892. She was a woman 
of refined tastes and took great delight in cultivation of flowers. 
She was married in May, 1850, to Sidney Algernon Allen, of 
Hebron, Me. He was born July 2, 1826. He was a shoemaker 
and inventor. He was brother to Prof. Oscar Allen of Yale 
University. 

Their children were: i. Aurelian lanthus Allen, born March 
5, 1852, who married Clara Clark, in 1889. He died April 11, 
1891. 2. Bertrand W. Allen, born August 12, 1858; married 
Minerva E. Atwood, of Buckfield, Me., February 2^. 1893. They 
reside in South Boston, Mass. 3. Edgar Lawrence Allen, born 
December 13, i860; married Annie Smith. Their children are: 
Harold, Beatrice, Willis, Alice, Gladys, Lillian. 4. Laura May 
Allen, born April 7, 1870; died December 17, 1889, i" Auburn. 

ALBERT AU(;L'STUS ROBERTS was born in Brooks, 
Me., January 13. 1832. He died in Turner, Me., March 
12, 1901. He married Maria Louisa Woodman of 
Freeport. Me., December 18, 1853. He was a contractor 
and builder. He had at all times a large number of 
workmen and apprentices under his charge, having had 
extensive jobs in Androscoggin, Oxford and Cumberland 
counties. He was a member of Blake Lodge, L O. O. F., Turner, 
Me. He enlisted in the Twentv-third Maine \'olunteers, serving 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 



U3 



for the most part in the ambulance corps. He was a most genial 
and companionable person. His wife, Maria Louisa Woodman 
Roberts, was born March 25, 1831, at Freeport, Me. She was 
the daughter of Jonathan Woodman, of Freeport, Me., a soldier 
in the War of 181 2, and granddaughter of John Walker, a ser- 
geant in the Revolutionary War. She was a woman of great 





ALBERT AUGUSTUS ROBERTS, 

Youngest Son of Jotham Roberts. 

Taken at Age of 19. 

MARLA LOUISA WOODMAN ROBERTS, 

Wife of A. A. Roberts. 

Taken at Age of 18. 

strength of character, and her life has been one of unselfish devo- 
tion to her family. She resides at Turner, Me. 

Their oldest child, Alice Prudence Roberts, was born October 
20, 1854, at Buckfield, Me. She married William C. Chadbourne 
of Cambridge, Me., April 2y. 1888. She is a woman of a generous 
and sympathetic nature. Her residence is Turner, Me 

2. Howard Augustus Roberts was born June 14, 1857, at Buck- 
field, Me. He married Margaret F. Soule, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles Soule, of Freeport, Me., March 7, 1899. He was a 
contractor and builder and spent three years in Montana. He 
built the first church (Methodist) in Livingston, Mont., having 




THOMAS ARTlirR ROBERTS. 

Son of AlliiTl A. l^ohcrts. 

Great Grandson oi Tnnatlian Rnl)erts. 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 135 

full charge when but twenty-two years of age. His residence 
is Turner, Me. 

3. Albion Woodman Roberts, a contractor and builder, was 
born July 14, 1863. He has taken up photography and is meet- 
ing with excellent success. He is decidedly artistic in his tastes. 
Took a partial course at the New England Conservatory of Music,. 
Boston. His studio is at Turner, Me. 

Alberta Maria Roberts was born September 6, 1867, ^t Buck- 
field, Me. She is a member of "Hall in the Grove," and a gradu- 
ate of C. L. S. C. She has met with unqualified success as a 
teacher and makes her home with her mother in Turner, Me. 

5. Thomas Arthur Roberts, A. B., was born October 27, 1873,. 
at Lewiston, Me. He attended the common schools of Turner,. 
Me., until the age of sixteen ; then, being ambitious to continue 
his education, went to Auburn, Me., wh^re he worked his way 
through the Edward Little High School, graduating in the class 
of 1893. He was graduated from Bates College in the class of 
1899. He has taught in Turner, Wells, Brownfield and Madison, 
Me. For the past two years he has been principal of the Madison 
High School, meeting with marked success. He was recently 
elected superintendent of schools. He has shown considerable 
ability as an artist. 

6. Charles Oilman Roberts, adopted son, was born September 
16, 1873. He is a contractor and builder. He possesses a pleas- 
ing baritone voice and has studied at the New England Conserva- 
tory of Music, Boston. He married Josephine Lombard, daughter 
of Mr. and Mrs. George Lombard, of Biddeford, Me., October 
23, 1901. His residence is Turner, Me. 

LYDL\ ROBERTS was Jonathan's second child. She w^as born 
in Buckfield, Me., October 26, 1789. She married William Haskell 
and had four daughters and three sons. Three children died in 
infancy. Alvena was born in 1834 and married, in 1855, Daniel 
W. Leonard. She died in 1861, leaving one daughter, who alsa 
died. Harriet Haskell married Mark P. Went worth of Knox, Me. 
They had two children, Hortense and Alonzo, both deceased. 
Harriet was an invalid and died in Knox, Me., November, 1901. 
Sarah Haskell never married. She resides in Knox, Me. Elliot 
Haskell served three vears in the armv. He died in 1880. 



13 6 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

DANIEL ROBERTS, Jonathan's third ohikh was horn in 
Buckfield, Me., December 30, 1791. He married Mary HaskelL 
They had ten children, six of whom died young. They were : 
Clementine, who married Simon Thompson, of Brooks, Me. Their 
children were Lindlay and Addie. Cyrus was bom in 1825. and 
married Abby Marriam, of Morrill, Me., and lives in Lawrence, 
Mass. John P. married Widow Varney. He is living- in Mapleton, 
Me. He fought in First Maine Heavy Artillery, 1862 to 1865. 
Caroline married F. Ball, of Mapleton, Me. They have two 
daughters and one son. Their eldest daughter is the wife of 
Dennis Xatch, of West Somerville, Mass. 

HANNAH ROBERTS was Jonathan's fourth child. She was 
born in Buckfield, Me., December 23, 1793. Hannah married Lib- 
beus Jones. The children were : Libbeus, Willard, Sarah Rowe, 
Julia Burleigh, Hiram, Emily Cilley, Oscar (who married his sec- 
ond cousin, lantha Rowe, in Clinton, Me.), and Alvena. 

Lil)l)eus Junior married Christine Curiel in Brooks, Mc. Chil- 
dren: Joanna Jones, born March 9, 1841 ; died 1898. Mary A. 
Jones, Ijorn March 19, 1843; married Isaac Staples. Fannie E. 
Jones, l)()rn January 28, 1845. James Walter Jones, born April 7, 
1847 • niarried Ellen Roberts. They live in Belfast, Me. Eliza 
Jennette, born February 25, 1849. Willard E., born November 
22. 1851 ; died young. Willard S. Jones, born June 24, 1854; 
married, first, Alice Gordon, and, second, Lena Chase. Laurent 
O. Jones was born November 20, 1856; married. 

WILLARD ROBERTS was Jonathan's fifth child. He 
was born in Buckfield, Me., March 21, 1796, and died 
in Brooks, Me., July, 1867. He married Ruth Edwards, 
who was born August, 1796, and died June. 1867, in 
Brooks, Me. She was a sweet Quaker lady, beloved 
by all who knew her. Their children were : Alonzo 
Roberts, born October, 1819; died June, 1894. He married Eunice 
Stevens, who died February, 1897, leaving three children: Carrie 
Isabel Roberts, born June, 1862, who married Hamlin Rich, of 
Jackson. They had one child, who died. George Bean Roberts, 
born May, 1864, who married Carrie M. Crane. She died in 1897, 
leaving one child, Doris Albertine Roberts, born May, 1896. 
Ruth Willard Roberts, born February, 1867. She married Hiram 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 137 

Michaels and they have one son, Chellis Hiram Michaels, born 
May, 1886. They live in Belfast, Me. 

Willard and Ruth Roberts had a son Willard, born in 1823, 
and Marsters, born 1825, both of whom died in infancy. Their 
fourth son, Daniel Edwards Roberts, was born November, 1828, 
and died December, 1863. He was an invalid for many years. 
When a young man he went to Ohio. 1 le married Mary Sever- 
ance. They had one daughter, Mary Ruth Roberts. 

JOSEPH'S SISTER ELIZ.\BETH. 
ELIZABETH, fifth child of Joseph aud Hannah, was bom in 
1769 and died in 1856 in Buckfield, Mc, where she lived for 
many years. She married Thomas Irish, of Gorham, Me. Their 
children were : 

1. Mary, born in 1793; married Bennett Pompilly. Their 
children were : Miriam, Sylvira, Allen, Thomas, Bennett, Jona- 
than, Nelson, Mary Elizabeth. 

2. Miriam, born 1795 ; married Jonas Spaulding. Their chil- 
dren were : Mary, Jayonette, William, I'ranklin, Elizabeth. 

3. Thomas, born 1800; married Evaline Daggett. Their chil- 
dren were: Henry, Jonathan, Emily, Phoebe. 

4. Elizabeth, born 1802, who died young. 

5. William, born 1805 ; married Lucil/a Blodgett. Their chil- 
dren were: Mary Elizabeth, Lucilva, Thomas. 

6. Jonathan, born 1808; married Isabel Felton. Their chil- 
dren were: George, Elizabeth, Mary, Franklin, Anginette. 

7. Sylvira, born 1812; died in childhcod. 

JOSEPH'S SISTER MARY. 
MARY, sixth child of Joseph and Hc.nnah, married Richard 
Taylor. She lived and died in BuckfielJ, Me. Their children 
were : 

1. Elizabeth, who married Mr. Cushnian. 

2. Prudence, who married Mr. Lambert and died. He mar- 
ried her sister Xoa. 

3. Xoa, who married Mr. Lambert. 
4.. Dolly, unmarried. 

5. Mary, unmarried. 

6. Huldah, who married Nicholas Hall and had eleven chil- 
dren. 



138 THE ROBERTS FA.MILY. 

7. John, who married OHvc Taylor and had two children. 

8. Richard, who married Miriam Thurlow, and had two 
children. 

JOSEPH'S BROTHER JOHN. 

JOHN, seventh child of Joseph and Hannah, went to Brooks, 
Me., to join his brothers, Joseph and Jonathan, remaining there 
a few years, and then emigrated to the state of Ohio, where he 
died. His children are said to have gone to the Pacific coast 
and all trace of them is lost. Jolm married Miriam Irish of Buck- 
field, Me. Their children were: John, born April, 1800; William, 
born November, 1801 ; Emerson, born 1803; Sylvanus, born 
November 9, 1804 ; Charlotte, Marjory and six more were born 
in the west. 

When John went to Ohio, in 181 2, he left the boys, Sylvanus 
and Emerson, with his nephew, Jesse Shaw, in Buckfield, Me. 
Some years later Emerson joined his father in the west. 

Sylvanus settled in Prospect, now Stockton, Me., where he 
died April 25, 1872. He married twice. First, to Mary Jane 
Thompson of Brooks, Me., who died l<"elirnary 7, 1842. In 1844 
he married Remember (Record ) Warren, a widow of Buckfield,. 
Me., who was a cousin to the Irish family, in Buckfield, Me. 

There were four children by each union. 

Mary's children were Orpheus and Daphne, born in W^aldo, 
Me. ; Urbana and Laurens, born in Prospect, now Stockton, Me. 

ORPHEUS was second lieutenant in Fourth Maine Infantry 
and was killed the second day at Gettysburg in Devil's Den. His 
wife was Cementhe E. Staples of Prospect. Their children were 
Dianna E. and Delora J., both born in Stockton. Delora died in 
infancy. 

DAPHNE married Frank G. Stai)les cjf Sandy Point, Ale. 
(Stockton), who was drowned September 8, 1869. She married 
October 6, 1873, Ferdinand A. Maxwell oi Deering (now Port- 
land, ]\Ie., by annexation). 

Children of Daphne and I-"rank Staples : Florence AI. Staples, 
born in Sandy Point; S. I. Roberts Staples, born in California. 

Orpheus Frank Staples, born in Stockton, Me. 

Children of Daphne and Ferdinand Maxfield ; Ethel Louise 
Maxfield and Amy Ines Maxfield, both born at Sandy Point, Me. 
(Stockton). 



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URBANA married J. AMlford Staples of Prospect, Me. Their 
children: Edmund A., died in childhood; Laurens E., Remember 
B., Sylvanus R., died in childhood : Sylvanna R., Andrew B., all 
born in Stockton. 

Lx\URENS enlisted in a INIaine regiment for three months, re- 
enlisted in Fourth Maine, was transferred to the gunboat Louis- 
ville on the Mississippi river; was taken sick January 9, 1863, ^^^ 
died January 25, 1863, on hospital steamer, Red Rover. 

Remember's children were Lloyd, Lucullus, Jane and Dexter. 

LLOYD married ]\Iiss Ella (jriftin of Searsport, Me. Their 
children are Lottie and Edmund, both l)orn at Sherman Mills, 
Me., where the family reside. Lloyd was in the navy during the 
Civil War. 

LUCULLL^S married ^liss Jennie Houston of Searsport, Me. 
Their children: Bessie A. and Edward, born in Stockton, Me., and 
Marian Alice, born in Somerville, Mass. Lucullus was a machin- 
ist and died May 7, iQOi, in Somerville, Mass.. where he had re- 
sided for twenty years. 

JANE A. married Eugene "V^'aterman, who died in 1873. They 
had one child, who died in infancy. She married again, Jules 
McHamy of Glenville, Kern Count}-, California. Their children : 
Julia and another daughter born in Glenville, Cal. 

DEXTER married Miss Belle Libby of Carmel. Me., where 
they reside. Their children are Harr}' and Helen, both born in 
Carmel. 

SYLVANUS IRISH ROBERTS was a man of great business, 
activity and strength of character; a farmer, hunberman and 
millman, also owner of shipping. He was an early abolitionist, 
one of the organizers of the Republican party in his county and an 
uncompromising enemy of the sale of rum and rumsellers. The 
following article from the graceful pen of ^liss Faustina Hich- 
bom, daughter of Hon. N. G. Hichljorn, of Stockton, Me., ap- 
peared in the "Belfast Age" at the time of his death, and tells- 
brieflv the storv of his life: 

IN MEMORIAM. 

Died in Stockton, April 25, 1872, Sylvanus I. Roberts, aged 
sixty-eight years and five months. 



140 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

First in temperance, first in charity and first in honesty and 
moral character, none can fully realize the irreparable loss the 
community sustains in the removal of so prominent a citizen. 
Mr. Roberts was born in November, 1803, at Brooks, Me. When 
a child his father started for Ohio (then the far west), taking his 
entire family and possessions in one carriage ; but, being over- 
loaded, left "S. I." with friends in Oxford county. After sev- 
■eral years he returned to Brooks, making this his residence until 
1828, when he decided to join his father ii Ohio. The slow and 
tedious modes of travel, as well as mail communication, of that 




SYLVANUS IRISH ROBERTS. 

Grandson of Joseph and Hannah. 

Son of John Roberts. 

■date, are well shown in the fact of his mailing a letter before 
starting, going to New York by coastinj,'' vessel, from there by 
steamboat to Albany, thence by canal to Buffalo, and on foot 
over the mountains to the Allegheny ri^ er, down that in a log 
"dug-out" to the Ohio river, and from there on foot to within 
twenty miles of his father's home, where, calling to inquire his 
way at a postofiice, he found the letter forwarded before leaving 
Maine, and carried it to his parents. Not liking western life, he 
returned the following year to Brooks, where, a movement being 
soon made in the temperance reform, he commenced the labor 
of his life's devotion. Discarding all use of ardent spirits, he, 



THE ROBERTS FAMILY. Mr 

with a cousin, attempted raising a mill in Waldo Plantation with- 
out the aid of "rum." Topers threatened to bring their own sup- 
ply, but ere they were aware of the beginning, the frame was 
in position by the labor of four strictly temperate men, this being 
the first "temperance raising" within the limits of Waldo. Near- 
ly forty years ago he removed to the portion of Prospect now 
Stockton, purchasing and converting into a farm a lot of wild 
land upon the so-called "Turnpike," but subsequently becoming 
proprietor of an extensive adjacent mill property, transferred his 
family to the farm therewith connected, remaining there until his 
death. Untiring industry and strict economy brought a com- 
petency, which his liberal hand ever devoted to deeds of highest 
charity. To the needy he gave bread and clothing ; to those seek- 
ing employment, abundant labor, encouraging, by precept and" 
example, every honest endeavor. Few had lived more esteemed 
or died more lamented ; and if charity covereth sins, surely his few- 
human frailties are deeply hidden by his kindness to the widow, 
the orphan, the aged and the suffering. His great geniality — a 
peculiar elasticity and gentleness of nature — gave tone and charm 
to his personality, and rendered "Uncle Sill." as he was familiarly 
called, always a most welcome guest within the homes of his asso- 
ciates. In 1855 he served his county (Waldo) as sheriff, and at 
various times held offices of trust in his town. Other positions 
he did not seek, and once remarked : "I would rather be at the 
head of the Grand Division of Maine, Sons of Temperance, thart 
hold the position of governor." Nearly twenty-five years since 
he assisted in organizing a "Division of Sons of Temperance" in 
his town, to which the ardor of young manhood and the constant 
devotion of after years were given. Ever in attendance, ever 
ready with labor, money or advice, his influence was widely in- 
strumental in bringing his town to its present temperance condi- 
tion. May his mantle of "Love. Purity and Fidelity," in the 
fullness of his measure, fall upon younger shoulders. And may 
the "Faith, Hope and Charity" of his life dwell with his descend- 
ants, to quicken every effort for the humane and noble cause to 
which his life was dedicated. Two sons, the older (Orpheus), a 
brave lieutenant in the "Fourth Maine," the younger (Laurens), a 
true sailor of a gunboat, sacrificed themselves on their nation's 
altar of "Liberty and Union." Three sons and three daughters^. 



142 THE ROBERTS FAMILY. 

with his wife, survive him. Alay the sincere sympathy of friends 
and the belief of a final meeting of loved ones solace them in their 
grief for him who, as husliand, father and citizen, acted ever up- 
on the broad Christian principle, "Do unto others as you would 
that they should do to you." FAUSTINA HIGHBORN. 

Stockton, Me., April 27, 1872. 



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THE ROBERTS NAME. 



The investigations of the author in securing the data fur the 
proposed abbreviated history of one branch of the big Roberts 
tree, disclosed the fact that the name is much more general 
in this country than was supposed. Yet we believe that the 
New England stock can all be traced back to the common head. 

There is. a large branch in Connecticut which extended to 
Pennsylvania,, giving a distinguished Colonel Roberts to the war 
of 1 86 1, the representatives of that family in large numbers 
residing in Ohio and Illinois. 
A^'ermont gave a Colonel Roberts to the war of the rebellion. 

A Colonel Roberts commanded the ist Michigan Regiment, and 
the Roberts name is most common in that state. 

Maine gave to the war. General Charles W. Roberts, colonel 
of the Second Maine Regiment, a young officer of great soldierly 
merit, son of Amos M. Roberts of Bangor, who sprung from 
Thomas Roberts of Dover, New Hampshire, who came to 
America in 1635. 

Thomas A. Roberts of Portland was colonel of the Seven- 
teenth Maine Regiment, and an excellent officer, his son. Lieu- 
tenant Charles W. Roberts, being adjutant of the same com- 
mand, to which he was transferred from the Tenth Maine. Lieut. 
Roberts lost a leg at Gettysburg. Col. T. A. Roberts was born in 
Portland, where his father, Nathaniel Roberts, also appears to 
have been born. The Roberts name is found among the early 
settlers of Plymouth, Mass., where is buried Sylvanus Roberts, 
who died there during the seventeenth century. 

There is much traditional evidence — fortified by town records 
of property changes — to prove that all of the Roberts name 
who settled in Maine prior to the revolutionary war, were from 
New Hampshire, all of which territory was then a part of 
INIassachusetts. 

This digression from or addition to the other pages is simply 
given as incidental matter of interest to all of the Roberts name. 



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